Peterw wrote:
Don't know about that interpretation Bob. The bird has gone through at least
one moult as juveniles are plain brown, and those are the ones most often
reported out-of-range in Europe.
For those frustrated easterners salivating over the Rosy Starling in the
far NW, can I suggest you just go a few extra miles and watch these
birds for real in Central Asia. Out on the steppe in Kazakhstan and
Kyrgyzstan in 2000 I recall seeing thousands of the blighters - big
wheeling flocks reminiscent of Galahs with the alternating pink/dark
flashes of colour. It looks like this local wanderer is going to be a
bit elusive on its own in such a big landscape - well done to those who
found it in the first place.
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