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| velkavrh28. 12. 2018 08:20:14 |
ločanka, more than twenty years ago I was quite engaged in identifying birds.
1.-green sandpiper is the correct identification. It is a fairly common species here. Similar to it is the black godwit. Characteristic for it is the red frontal shield, which is not visible on pictures, and yellow tip of the red bill. Also cream-white undertail and side line of the same color.
2.-cormorant is also correct. You can't mistake a cormorant with that characteristic bill. I saw it up close this year in Izola. We have great and pygmy ones. This is the great cormorant. The great one is 30 cm larger than the pygmy. Fishermen don't like it, because it eats lots of fish.
3. also avocet is correct. I haven't seen it yet. I know it from the handbook. Characteristic for it is long red bill, underside-breast- uniformly grey.
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| velkavrh28. 12. 2018 08:40:36 |
We have two bird feeders at our place. I start feeding them at the beginning of October. I notice that if I run out of seeds and suet cakes in between, they don't show up for a day or so. This year there are far fewer than last year. Only tree sparrows are plentiful. Yesterday I spotted long-tailed tits on the feeder. Unfortunately they had already flown away when I got there with the camera and only had my mobile with me.
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| Ornitolog29. 12. 2018 20:05:20 |
Greeting,
ornithologist has returned from warm places 
I see that in this time a solid number of interesting observations and even nicer photos have accumulated. Let me add some of my fresh ones.
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| piotr13. 01. 2019 20:19:37 |
Since there have been no posts here for a while, I'll add this one from two weeks ago from the Kum area. It reminded me of
a media post about the renewed mass gathering of fieldfares in the Zasavje area.
At that time I could observe within a few minutes interval
about ten flocks with at least a thousand birds. It was really a magnificent event over Škratova dolina in the evening time.
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| ločanka10. 02. 2019 11:50:31 |
On Culture Day we observed crossbills like this on top of Slivnica, males and females
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| zlatica11. 02. 2019 09:43:13 |
excellent, ločanka, maybe I'll catch them sometime on Slivnica now that I know they're there!
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| ločanka11. 02. 2019 16:50:11 |
zlatica, at this time they are seen quite often. If I remember correctly they nest right in February
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| ločanka4. 03. 2019 05:59:40 |
Yesterday photographed on Sviščaki. Dunnock or brambling? That's the question
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| ločanka6. 03. 2019 15:21:58 |
Tadej, what if you also change the title here e.g. to Birds
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| Tadej6. 03. 2019 15:25:20 |
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| Ornitolog9. 03. 2019 16:12:35 |
@zlatica, on the photos it's a buzzard.
@ločanka, on the photos it's a kestrel.
Attaching photos of the rarely seen white-backed woodpecker. It's the largest woodpecker here, lives in old beech forests/primeval forests at higher elevations. For survival it needs much more dead wood than other woodpeckers. Because Slovenian forests are becoming too sterile and clear-cut (plainly said ugly and barren), it's threatened with extinction. Estimate for Slo is ca. 100 pairs of white-backed woodpeckers. For a country with 60% forest, that's shamefully few. Modern forestry practice doesn't allow it to survive...
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| zlatica9. 03. 2019 20:13:19 |
ornitolog, really thanks for the info about the buzzard. the thing about the woodpecker is really interesting and at the same time sad, that it doesn't have good conditions for life. This surprises me, since when I look around forests, as a layman I feel there's way too much fallen wood, especially after these windstorms and I'd think it has enough dead wood. Well, as it seems, my layman's impression isn't right.
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| TamaraTP20. 03. 2019 19:37:05 |
Great spotted woodpecker, I presume ...
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| otiv1. 04. 2019 19:34:59 |
Today luck smiled on me too, since the migratory bird ortolan bunting is rarer here.
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| Ornitolog1. 04. 2019 20:31:56 |
Wonderful! For ortolan you really need luck. We would be very happy if you could share your photo on the fb page BirdingSlovenia.
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| otiv2. 04. 2019 06:40:24 |
Thanks, Ornitolog. Will share on fb.
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| Ornitolog4. 04. 2019 20:52:50 |
Hi, as a curiosity, soon the book Atlas of Birds of Slovenia will be out. In it you'll find all bird species living in our mountains.
http://ptice.si/atlas/
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| darinka417. 04. 2019 13:37:34 |
Today a swallow flew into the house. And flew out to freedom. This year they return later.
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| ločanka2. 05. 2019 20:01:48 |
This is how the rock pigeon posed today below Pl. Ravne
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