Our Feathered Friends, Hungary, Part 3, RenG

7/29/2019 Our Feathered Friends, Hungary, Part 3, RenG

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Our feathered friends

Hungary

Part 3

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Acrocephalus schoenobaenus, Sedge Warbler.


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The song of the Sedge Warbler is varied and never the same.


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The song has the purpose of attracting a partner.


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Spoonbills, Platalea leucorodia and Ardea cinerea, Blue

Heron.


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The breeders have a yellow breast patch and a crest in the

breeding season.


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The breeding birds also have a black bill with a yellow tip.


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Spoonbills in company of Great Egrets, Ardea albas .


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Pure white Spoonbills are like a painting in the sky.


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Oriolus oriolus, although he looks striking yellow, he is hard

to find because he is very shy.


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Golden Oriole prefers to sit in treetops.


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Chlidonias hybrida, Whiskered Tern

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His clear white cheeks, contrasting with the black flight

feathers is a good feature.


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Sterna hirundo has a black cap, orange-red legs, and a narrow

pointed bill that can be mostly red with a black tip.


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Common Tern has a long fork in the tail.


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Chlidonias niger


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In spring and early summer the Black Tern has a black head

and gradually descending gray plumage on the breast.


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Gallinula chloropus


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Motacilla alba is a slender bird with a narrow, black-white tail that it

constantly moves up and down.


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White wagtail


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White wagtail juvenile.


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Larus ridibundus


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Are my eyes bigger than

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I am ambitious.


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Mayday, Im going down


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Splash.


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Am I going to make it?


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Still going strong.

What do you think?


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Who says a bird life is easy?


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Not always grip for a gigantic lunch.

I t ld I biti !


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I told you so, Im ambitious!


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Two Pheasants, Phasianus colchicus, in a feint fight for the

females.


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The male is often accompanied by a harem of several

females.

Aythya ferina


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Aythya ferina

Common Pochard


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Common Pochard

Erithacus rubecula


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Erithacus rubecula

Sitta europaea Nuthatch can climb the trees up as well as down


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Sitta europaea, Nuthatch, can climb the trees up as well as down.

Sylvia atricapilla Blackcap


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Sylvia atricapilla, Blackcap


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Streptopelia turtur, Turtle Dove, may be recognised by its

black-and-white-striped patch on the side of its neck.

Streptopelia turtur


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Streptopelia turtur

According to the State of Europe's Common Birds 2007


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According to the State of Europe s Common Birds 2007

report, the European Turtle Dove population in Europe has

fallen by 62% in recent times.

Aythya nyroca near threatened


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Aythya nyroca, near threatened.

Ferruginous Duck


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Ferruginous Duck


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Tringa nebularia, Common Greenshank.


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Like most waders, it feeds on small invertebrates, but also


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with small fish.


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Ardeola ralloides


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Ardeola ralloides

Squacco Heron inhabits wetlands


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Squacco Heron inhabits wetlands.

With preference for freshwaters and lots of vegetation.


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It is a stocky heron, with a short neck, short thick bill and


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brownish color back.

It has good camouflage colors.


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Its diet consists of insects, amphibians and fish.


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The Squacco Heron is a migrant, wintering in Africa.


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