Isn't this a great group when friends you've never met go the extra
mile to help you out ??!
Thanks a lot for doing this Matthieu. I think I know Willow Tits
pretty well and actually, somewhere in my "gut", a Redpoll makes more
sense, they were definitely around during that trip but not singing
(the ones I saw that is). Most reference material I can find is all
about their rattling songs, but I cannot find much reference material
on C.f.cabaret (which the Brits now recognise as a separate
species "Lesser Redpoll" - see the BOU site). I will store this
opinion away and chase it down: French birders who know the mountains
need to be listened to. Thanks also for the link to that great
Sonatura blog site that I had not seen before.
Tero - thanks also for your Great Tit opinion, I know, I know, I am
endlessly suspicious of that creature - but this time I think it is
not.....(famous last words which I may have to eat !!).
Thanks guys for your interest and encouragement with my dilema.
Chris
--- In Matthieu Crocq
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> Chris Hails wrote:
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> > Matthieu: you could be right about Greenfinch, although I have
never
> > heard them do this before, but I can see where you are coming
from.
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> Dear Chris:
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> As a matter of facts, I may be wrong with my Greenfinch guess...
oops!
> I've asked two friends from the French nature recordists'
association
> Sonatura (*) and both of them (much stronger than I am at those
> identification games!) think it's probably the alpine subspecies
> of Meally Redpoll (Carduelis flammea cabaret). But they warn that
> it may also be an atypical call of the alpine Willow Tit (Parus
> montanus montanus), although the Meally Redpoll hypothesis seems
> the best one.
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> (*) Sonatura's audioblog is here : http://audioblog.sonatura.com
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