The bird thread

[Albion]

(of the feathered variety - not what your dirty mind were thinking :D )

So, is anyone on here interested in birds or birdwatching? I just noticed yesterday the Swifts have returned from Africa.
So this can be a sort of pictures and discussion thread. Posted any birds you like.

Swifts:

http://www.wildaboutbritain.co.uk/gallery/files/2/4/0/AlpineSwift7550.jpg

Atlantic Puffins:

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/21/Atlantic_Puffin_Lundy.jpg

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f8/Iceland_--_2008-08-05_17-04-14.jpg/800px-Iceland_--_2008-08-05_17-04-14.jpg

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a5/Klippen.jpg/800px-Klippen.jpg

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/35/Puffins%2C_Lunga.jpg

Atlantic Puffins (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atlantic_Puffin) - found around rocky coasts of Scandinavia, Faroe, Iceland, Scotland, Wales, Ireland and England.

Little Auks:

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/dc/AlleAlle_2.jpg/800px-AlleAlle_2.jpg

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ed/AlleAlle_1.jpg/800px-AlleAlle_1.jpg

Little Auks (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Little_auk) - found in Greenland, Iceland, Russian Arctic islands, Svalbard and wintering in Eastern England and the North Sea.

Black Grouse:

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/bf/Black_Grouse_Nationalpark_Bayerischer_Wald.jpg/400px-Black_Grouse_Nationalpark_Bayerischer_Wald.jpg

Black grouse (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_grouse) are found throughout Northern Europe mostly in upland areas. Restricted in UK to Scottish highlands, a few areas of the Pennines and Snowdonia.

[Albion]

Cappercaile:

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/42/Tetrao_urogallus_Richard_Bartz.jpg/439px-Tetrao_urogallus_Richard_Bartz.jpg

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a4/Capercaillie_Lomvi_2004.jpg/711px-Capercaillie_Lomvi_2004.jpg

Follow this link for video as I can't get it to embed (http://www.youtube.com/embed/w9pJIbQ2umo)

Unfortunately these (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Western_Capercaillie) are restricted to Scotland. Maybe they were native to England and Wales a few centuries ago but the forests are a lot smaller and more broad-leaf than they used to be (it requires coniferous forests) and the climate has warmed making most of Britain unsuitable for it.
In Scotland it is under threat and is one of the birds most likely to go extinct in Britain. But it is being supported by conservation groups so hopefully it survives and begins to thrive.

The mating call (http://www.youtube.com/embed/w9pJIbQ2umo) of cappercailes is quite funny to listen to.

[Albion]

Red Grouse:

http://www.alladale.com/images/body_content/wildlife/red_grouse_lge.jpg

http://www.wild-scotland.org.uk/cmsimages/Red%20grouse%20-%20wee_257.bmp

An endemic sub-species of the continental Willow Grouse (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Willow_Grouse), the Red Grouse (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Grouse) is only found in Western and Northern Parts of the British Isles, mainly in Scotland, Northern England and North Wales.

British game bird shooters have long tried to classify it as a separate species, but most people except it as a sub species of the European Willow Grouse that evolved in isolation now.

[Hess]

I foresee all of the female posters spamming this thread with "AWW HOW CUTE" remarks.

[Albion]

I foresee all of the female posters spamming this thread with "AWW HOW CUTE" remarks.

Lol, maybe. I saw the yugoslav / Balkan trolls spamming it with pictures of women when I posted it myself.

[Smaland]

http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_jNRUbCNVCyk/TUP7mb4z72I/AAAAAAAAA6U/CV105fHwCdo/s1600/red_cardinal-bird1.jpg

[Albion]

http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_jNRUbCNVCyk/TUP7mb4z72I/AAAAAAAAA6U/CV105fHwCdo/s1600/red_cardinal-bird1.jpg

Nice colour.

[Ivanushka-supertzar]

Oh Im huge fan of birds. Id like to surround myself with them as much as possible. My grandfather used to be mad canary breeder. There were like dozens of canaries living in his house. it was amazing.

http://www.centralislandbirdclub.ca/images/pets/Canaries.jpg

http://bluecanary1.narod.ru/canary.jpg

http://richardkmiller.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/07/canaries.jpg

http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_jZHHRfnq9F8/SQcv3gCninI/AAAAAAAAG4A/mgH9mbSDkls/s400/Canary++finch.jpg

[Albion]

Yeah, I've got a Canary too and a Zebra finch from a friend to keep him company (only one because the rest of them died before I got them.

http://www.finchlove.com/wp-content/uploads/Taeniopygia_guttata_Zebra_Finch_620.jpg

[Treffie]

We have fake Puffins on Ramsey Island :D

http://news.bbcimg.co.uk/media/images/52131000/jpg/_52131581_52131580.jpg

[Zankapfel]

From the Anatidae family, I took photos of these Mandarin duckies myself on the lake at Bergpark Wilhelmshöhe.

http://i421.photobucket.com/albums/pp297/solwm/1aa82c30.jpg

http://i421.photobucket.com/albums/pp297/solwm/3eb9f210.jpg

[The Lawspeaker]

Birdie birdie in the sky, drops a poopie in my eye, but I don't care, I don't cry, I thank God that cows can't fly..

[Albion]

From the Anatidae family, I took photos of these Mandarin duckies myself on the lake at Bergpark Wilhelmshöhe.

http://i421.photobucket.com/albums/pp297/solwm/1aa82c30.jpg

http://i421.photobucket.com/albums/pp297/solwm/3eb9f210.jpg

Yes, we have a few in England too. They're beautiful animals, native to China and the Russian Far East.


Birdie birdie in the sky, drops a poopie in my eye, but I don't care, I don't cry, I thank God that cows can't fly..

Hahaha, very good.

[Daos]

The hill where my grandparents used to live is full of peasants now, because people have stopped working on their wine-yards and the place is mostly barren...

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d7/Phasianus_colchicus_2_tom_%28Lukasz_Lukasik%29.jpg

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/7c/Phasianus_colchicus_-Rutland_Water_-female-8.jpg

YoJPXrhOw4E

The male is very beautiful.:)

[Albion]

The hill where my grandparents used to live is full of peasants now, because people have stopped working on their wine-yards and the place is mostly barren...

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d7/Phasianus_colchicus_2_tom_%28Lukasz_Lukasik%29.jpg

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/7c/Phasianus_colchicus_-Rutland_Water_-female-8.jpg

YoJPXrhOw4E

The male is very beautiful.:)

Yeah, I see them occasionally too. They're beautiful birds, even if they do act a bit dozy though sometimes. :D