Sunrise and some birds

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Sunrise and some birds

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Some nature images of the last 2 weeks or so. The birds are far from perfect (exposure times could have been higher and the iso lower; resulting in a cleaner image). A bit rusty in all that; but with some practice; I'll get there :)

Thanks for looking!

Image2020-08-02-Sunrise by Jochen Maes, on Flickr

Image2020-08-02-Heron_flight by Jochen Maes, on Flickr

Image2020-08-02-Whinchat by Jochen Maes, on Flickr

Image2020-07-31-Black_Headed_Gull by Jochen Maes, on Flickr

Image2020-07-31-Coot by Jochen Maes, on Flickr

Image2020-07-29-Mallard by Jochen Maes, on Flickr
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Fabulous images Jochen :hamster: to take any crisp pictures of birds is a very hard thing to do :bow

Out of interest, were you looking in an American bird book for translations? not being picky but I would call these birds slightly different :)

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I would go for European (in Belgium?)

Grey Heron
Whinchat (female)
Black Headed Gull
Coot (Eurasian)
Mallard (male in August moult)

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Even worse; Google! ;) I usually don't have a clue what they're called in English (just know them by their Dutch names) and simply Google a translation.

Thanks for the updated names; gonna make the edits in a few.


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OK, I get that now, good old Google :lol:

Your English is as perfect as an English speaker, but I guess bird names are difficult to translate. I always love the French version of a Red Kite which is Milan royal so nothing like the English translation.

I recently bought a new bird book (update from my 1980's version) and a lot of the names have changed. There seems to be a definite change to call everything Eurasian ..... I think to distinguish between the American .... of the same. Also a Fan-tailed Warbler has totally changed names to Zitting cisticola, how about that!! I heard someone talking about this bird earlier this year and thought, what, I have never heard of this, am I going nutty. This is when I thought I had better buy a new book and update myself :) I suppose we could go with Latin names but that would be boring :lol:

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Yeah, bird names aren't even remotely similar across various languages usually :lol:

My girlfriend has been talking about getting me a bird book for my birthday later this year. I think I might just go with it and ask for one in English.

And I'll pass on the Latin names as well, thank you very much :mrgreen:


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This is the new one I just bought, an absolute bible of birds. I started out with the 1970s edition and wow have things changed!

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Collins-Bird-G ... ooghydr-21

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Hi Jochen,

Excellent terrestrial images and the colours look very natural for me. Birds are always tough to get. They move too much :lol: :lol: :lol:


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JochenM wrote: Wed Aug 05, 2020 2:26 pm Yeah, bird names aren't even remotely similar across various languages usually :lol:

My girlfriend has been talking about getting me a bird book for my birthday later this year. I think I might just go with it and ask for one in English.

And I'll pass on the Latin names as well, thank you very much :mrgreen:
About books take a look at the " Peterson Field Guides ". I have several of them. The most difficult birds for me to identify are the Sparrow family :o

https://tinyurl.com/birdsBritainEurope


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Thanks for the book recommendations Alexandra/Rainer; appreciate it. Will have a look at those. :bow


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Jochen always good to see the birds on the other side of the world.As for the names every few years they have taxonomy changes and species are split so they are always changing as DNA testing advances.


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