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The Black Redstart (Phoenicurus ochruros) is a small perching bird in the Old World flycatcher family Muscicapidae which is the genus Phoenicurus. It is a locally common resident in central and southern Europe and northern Africa. It also occurs in western and central Asia. In the warmer parts of its range it is sedentary. The northern populations migrate in the autumn to spend the winter in southern and western Europe, northern Africa and the Indian sub continent. Text © www.rawbirds.com |
Thursday 31 October 2013
BLACK REDSTART (Phoenicurus ochruros) Cape Clear Island, Baltimore, Co.Cork, Ireland
Tuesday 29 October 2013
Monday 28 October 2013
EURASIAN CURLEW Numenius arquata Rogerstown Estuary, Rush, Co. Dublin, Ireland
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Rush,
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Sunday 27 October 2013
EURASIAN WIGEON (Male) Anas penelope Rogerstown Estuary, Rush, Co. Dublin, Ireland
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October,
Rogerstown Estuary,
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EURASIAN WIGEON (Male) Anas penelope Rogerstown Estuary, Rush, Co. Dublin, Ireland
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Anas penelope,
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Canon 7D,
Co. Dublin,
duck,
Ireland,
male,
October,
Rogerstown Estuary,
Rush
WHOOPER SWAN (Cygnus cygnus) Broadmeadow Estuary, Swords, Co.Dublin, Ireland
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COMMON REDSTART (1st winter) Phoenicurus phoenicurus Cape Clear Island, Baltimore, Co.Cork, Ireland
Thursday 24 October 2013
EUROPEAN TURTLE DOVE (Streptopelia turtur) two juveniles at Ballyieragh South, Cape Clear Island, Baltimore, Co.Cork, Ireland
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The European Turtle Dove (Streptopelia turtur) is a migratory member of the family Columbidae, which includes doves as well as pigeons and is in the genus Streptopelia. It is a summer breeding resident in Europe (including the Canary Islands), parts of the Middle East, as well as western Asia and north Africa. It is absent as a breeding species from Iceland, Ireland (formally bred) and most of Scandinavia but does occur in spring and autumn as
an uncommon/rare overshooting migrant. Over much of its northern range,
there has been a very sharp decline in its population. In the autumn,
it migrates south to spend the winter in southern Africa. |
Wednesday 23 October 2013
COMMON ROSEFINCH (1st winter) Carpodacus erythrinus Ballyieragh South, Cape Clear Island, Baltimore, Co.Cork, Ireland
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Tuesday 22 October 2013
RED ADMIRAL BUTTERFLY (Vanessa atalanta) Cape Clear Island, Baltimore, Co.Cork, Ireland
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