Hello all,
European birds are slightly paler and perhaps a tad smaller (or larger? can't remember). Males in particular are more yellowish in colour and don't have such a dark back. The birds also seem to behave differently with European birds being bolder and easier to see. This especially the case when they are migrating as they will use any suitable wetlands, even small mud puddles, they are also more sociable as well at that time of year and often form small flocks. I've had the luck of observing 32 birds circling over an olive grove in which they would spend the night.
Cheers!
Dimitris
PS: If they have been split I got meself and armchair tick as well! :P :)
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> Date: Sun, 10 Feb 2008 09:45:29 +0100
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> Subject: Re: [canberrabirds] (Australian) Little Bittern
>
> Hi Julian
>
> For the befit of everyone, here is the messge I posted to Geoffery:
>
> On 9 Feb 2008, at 12:12, David Nowell wrote:
> > Geoffrey
> >
> > But surely a different subspecies from Europe and therefore worth
> > the footage ...?? Probably showing my ignorance here as I am not a
> > local! :->
> >
> > The reason I say this is that I recently had the pleasure of
> > meeting the person responsible for the next generation of bird
> > field guides / books for Southern Africa and they have a little
> > challenge. They are about to start providing drawings of sub-
> > species and suddenly they find they are lacking a complete set of
> > good images from which they can work for many f the species ......
> > all sorts of people are now running around the countryside taking
> > new / better images of the subspecies. It was certainly an angle to
> > my photography that I had not given serious thought to before...
> >
> > Regards
> >
> > David
> >
> > Rome, Italy
>
> Regards
>
> David
>
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>
>
> On 10 Feb 2008, at 09:28, Julian Robinson wrote:
>
> > Could somebody expand on this please for the benefit of us general
> > listers - is there a database or other repository of photos of
> > subspecies where the value can be realised? What was the point
> > that David was making please?
> >
> > Julian
> >
> > At 10:10 AM 10/02/2008, Geoffrey Dabb wrote:
> >> Thanks also to David Nowell for drawing attention to the value of
> >> obtaining images of subspecies (as we thought this was!).
> >
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