Bird of the Week Challenge: 7th April - Third Letter Photo

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Holly
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Bird of the Week Challenge: 7th April - Third Letter Photo

Hey everyone - first challenge in a new challenge subforum! 

Here are the instructions:

  • Person A posts a photo (e.g. Purple Swamphen)
  • The next person (person B) has to post a photo of a bird with one word in their name starting with the third letter of a word in the previous birds name - in this case - R or A (so it could be a Buff-banded Rail, a Restless Flycatcher, a Australasian Hobby etc).
  • Next person has to use the third letter as well - and so on
  • One entry per person per time (so if the letter is R, don't go posting 5 birds starting with R, just one) BUT you can play again after 3 other people have had a go.
  • The same bird species can be posted more than once (but different shots) and there can be multiple birds in the shot (i.e. it can be a flock of the same species).

Make sense?

I can clarify as we go (I was going to just go with the third letter of the full name but thought that might get too hard - so in the above example - just R and Restless Flycatcher).

BabyBirdwatcher
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Great idea holly, (I know I've already posted this image) but to get it started off Nankeen Night Heron

Cheers Babybirdwatcher

Holly
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Another one I can't take credit for BBW - we have some clever forum members here...

 

So next photo needs to use a N a G or an R

 

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Red-winged Fairy-wren

Elsie
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Double-barred Finch. Sorry this the only photo I could find, I hope that it's not too hardsmiley

Annie W
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Native-hen

West Coast Tasmania

pacman
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Terek Sandpiper

Peter

rawshorty
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Numenius Madagascariensis

Shorty......Canon gear

Canberra

http://www.flickr.com/photos/rawshorty/ 

shoop
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Mistletoebird (Dicaeum hirundinaceum) --- either or if thats ok. 

Kerry - Perth, Western Australia.

Rick N
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Silvereye. This is fun.

birdie
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Scarlet honey Eater .... sorry no Latin for me !

Sunshine Coast Queensland

shoop
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I agree with Rick N... this is fun ... so many great photos too ...keep them coming :)

Kerry - Perth, Western Australia.

rawshorty
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Ardea Alba

Shorty......Canon gear

Canberra

http://www.flickr.com/photos/rawshorty/ 

shoop
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DaRter 

Kerry - Perth, Western Australia.

birdie
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Sorry Rick .... your post didn't show when I posted mine

Sunshine Coast Queensland

Rick N
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No problem, there will always be the odd cross over post.

Rick N
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Red Browed Finch

Elsie
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Noisy Miner

desbee
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New Holland Honeyeater.

Des

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White-naped Honeyeater

shoop
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Ibis (Threskiornis moluccus) ( hope that doesn't make things hard by having '' i '' again ) Edited so you can use the Latin.

Kerry - Perth, Western Australia.

Rick N
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Thanks for the Latin smiley Restless Flycatcher

desbee
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Yellow-billed Spoonbill.

Des

Rick N
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Some lovely photos so far.

rawshorty
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Osprey ( Pandion Haliaetus )

Shorty......Canon gear

Canberra

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birdie
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I am lost here.... Shorty how does Osprey fitsurprise in?  I am too slow as I was just going to post an L  bird.... can you sort me out here ?

Please correct me if I am wrong though blush

Sunshine Coast Queensland

rawshorty
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spOonbill
 

Shorty......Canon gear

Canberra

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birdie
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Oh OF COURSE .... I am too slow for these challenges I suspect  .....  if it is not my mind it is my searching for the appropriate bird!!!

Thank Shorty

Sunshine Coast Queensland

birdie
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Pale Headed Rosella (Platycercus adscitus)

Sunshine Coast Queensland

BabyBirdwatcher
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Great photos everyone, absolutely love the quality and diversity of images displayed

birdie
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Yes , I should have said that too baby birdwatcher .... they are really lovely and diverse , it is a lot of fun smiley

Sunshine Coast Queensland

Annie W
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Scrubtit (Acanthornis magnus)

West Coast Tasmania

Rick N
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Australasian Shoveler

rawshorty
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Silvereye ( Zosterops Lateralis )

Shorty......Canon gear

Canberra

http://www.flickr.com/photos/rawshorty/ 

shoop
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Lorikeet (Trichoglossus haematodus)

Kerry - Perth, Western Australia.

Elsie
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Eurasian Coot (Fulica atra)

birdie
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Osprey .. ( from CoOt)

Sunshine Coast Queensland

desbee
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Pied Heron.

Des

Annie W
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(Scarlet) Robin

West Coast Tasmania

shoop
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Butcherbird (Cracticus torquatus)

Kerry - Perth, Western Australia.

rawshorty
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Aquila Audax

Shorty......Canon gear

Canberra

http://www.flickr.com/photos/rawshorty/ 

pacman
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Double-banded Plover

Peter

birdie
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Pied Oystercatcher

Sunshine Coast Queensland

Rick N
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Eurasian Coot

rawshorty
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Red-capped Robin

Shorty......Canon gear

Canberra

http://www.flickr.com/photos/rawshorty/ 

Rick N
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Lovely shades of colour there Shortyyes

birdie
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Yes beautiful  colurs and a sweet bird..... all the shots are so lovely. Was that Wedgie in captivity Shorty? just wondered as it is such a top shot. Also ..Des.... isn't that a Pacific or White Necked Heron?  Just asking as we see a few up here in Queensland .

Cheers

Birdie

Sunshine Coast Queensland

rawshorty
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Thanks, Rick and Birdie.

The Wedgie is a wild bird, i did a short write up about it on here when i got them. I have heaps of pics including while he was eating the roo.

http://www.birdsinbackyards.net/forum/Snowy-Highlight

Shorty......Canon gear

Canberra

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desbee
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birdie wrote:
Also ..Des.... isn't that a Pacific or White Necked Heron?  Just asking as we see a few up here in Queensland .

Cheers

Birdie

I based my ID on the beak colour which seems to be more white on the Pacific. Also the location fits for the Pied as it was in Kakadu. However, you may well be right Birdie. I am using the Photographic Field Guide by Donald and Molly Trounson.

Des

birdie
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Thnaks Des ..... it must be a juvenile Pied ...... of course ..... how lucky you were to be in Kakadu .... I went there long before any decent camera gear or my birding passion developed smiley

Sunshine Coast Queensland

desbee
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Australian Pratincole (red caPped robin)

Des

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