Beskrivelse: Putative Amur Falcon or aberrant Red-footed Falcon??? I left the bird unidentified certainly at the moment because two characters I don't know if can fit for Amur Falcon. The general appearance theoretically looks OK for the species, but the flank feathers seem to look oak leaf patterned mixed with arrowhead patterns (rear flank). The mask is strong and almost rounded edged, which is strange, but itself is not against or in favor of Red-footed or Amur.
Brief description: In the field it seemed to be slightly compacted in construction than the Red-footed Falcons. It has grey tail with dark transverse bands. Upperpart (cap, nape and back) grey. The remiges were black/blackish with white spots. Rear wing (trailing edge's band) black and relatively wide, obvious. The underwing pattern reminded chessboard drawing, undoubtedly black and white, which was very obvious and is strongly in favor of Amur. I have not noticed the presence of any brown color in underwing and whole underbody. Undertail coverts white or whitish.
http://rombird.ro/en/obf/13681/index
Comments are welcome!
Beskrivelse: Putative Amur Falcon or aberrant Red-footed Falcon??? I left the bird unidentified certainly at the moment because two characters I don't know if can fit for Amur Falcon. The general appearance theoretically looks OK for the species, but the flank feathers seem to look oak leaf patterned mixed with arrowhead patterns (rear flank). The mask is strong and almost rounded edged, which is strange, but itself is not against or in favor of Red-footed or Amur.
Brief description: In the field it seemed to be slightly compacted in construction than the Red-footed Falcons. It has grey tail with dark transverse bands. Upperpart (cap, nape and back) grey. The remiges were black/blackish with white spots. Rear wing (trailing edge's band) black and relatively wide, obvious. The underwing pattern reminded chessboard drawing, undoubtedly black and white, which was very obvious and is strongly in favor of Amur. I have not noticed the presence of any brown color in underwing and whole underbody. Undertail coverts white or whitish.
http://rombird.ro/en/obf/13681/index
Comments are welcome!
Beskrivelse: Putative Amur Falcon or aberrant Red-footed Falcon??? I left the bird unidentified certainly at the moment because two characters I don't know if can fit for Amur Falcon. The general appearance theoretically looks OK for the species, but the flank feathers seem to look oak leaf patterned mixed with arrowhead patterns (rear flank). The mask is strong and almost rounded edged, which is strange, but itself is not against or in favor of Red-footed or Amur.
Brief description: In the field it seemed to be slightly compacted in construction than the Red-footed Falcons. It has grey tail with dark transverse bands. Upperpart (cap, nape and back) grey. The remiges were black/blackish with white spots. Rear wing (trailing edge's band) black and relatively wide, obvious. The underwing pattern reminded chessboard drawing, undoubtedly black and white, which was very obvious and is strongly in favor of Amur. I have not noticed the presence of any brown color in underwing and whole underbody. Undertail coverts white or whitish.
http://rombird.ro/en/obf/13681/index
Comments are welcome!
-Og?
Kvaliteten på billederne giver ikke anledning til mange funderinger; men som art kan der vel ikke være noget særligt i at se en topskarv ved Sortehavskysten.
Er der en særlig forklaring på, at den er sat på som raritet (Cap Kaliakra i Bulgarien ligger ikke mange km syd for Rumænien.)Er lidt nysgerrig....
Det har jeg så nu.
Jeg reagerede uden at have set den. Ville nu nok have reageret alligevel.Der er omkring 50 km fra Kaliakra, hvor den er almindelig og til den rumænske grænse- har i øvrigt også set den endnu tættere på grænsen (ca. 20 km, så jeg er stadig lidt af et ?
På den anden side kender jeg intet til rumænsk feltornitologi og spekulerer om der er dér den ligger...
Hi Erik and Jan!
Thank you for your comments on Netfugl, regarding the Ph. aristotellis image.
Erik, it is not a Podiceps griseigena, it is a juvenile Shag. I sent you several other images in private mail.
Yes, the species breeds in Bulgaria in a small colony (less than 250 pairs) in Cap Kaliakra (Bulgaria), aprox. 45 km in direct line from the place where we found in autumn 2012.
We had till now about 10 reports about the occurrence of the species in Romania, but no any certainly confirmed by pictures or film! Most of the records are old and based only on observation with old binoculars and no scope.
So this was the reason I mentioned "the first certainly confirmed record for Romania".
Excepting Cap Kaliakra, along the Bulgarian seashore Tyulenovo is the only place where the Shag's presence is considered relatively regular (but even here is not common and numerous!). This place is 28 km far from the location from the place where our birds were found.
I agree with you, because we also consider and we are almost sure that the species occur more regularly in southern Romanian shore (probably mainly in post breeding period), but even as a result of a kind of systematic searching in the past years, they presence on Romanian waters wasn't confirm certainly till this autumn.
Totally we identified 1 adult and 4-5 juveniles.
The whole length of the Romanian seashore is without any rocky place and it is very well known. So it is no any chance that possible breeding of the Shag in Romania was overlooked.
Best wishes,
Szilard
Hi,
Sorry, OK, G. stellata and not P. griseigena. It was my mistake when I translated the Danish text into Hungarian with Google translator to try to understand your discussions.
Regards,
Szilard
Hi Szilard,
I'm pretty sure the sooty-grey wash is in fact caused by dirt.
The parts of the plumage most likely to get in contact with soot (in a charred tree, or in a chimney),are dark (face, breast and probably also crown and back),but not the underside of the wings, nor the basal parts of the feathers, which are clearly quite normal.
In all likeliness one would get dirty hands from holding such a bird:-)
Best regards
Peter
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