tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8278510471239667560.post109517254774264471..comments2024-03-29T01:41:15.713+00:00Comments on Kensington Gardens and Hyde Park birds: Ralph Hancockhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11686354797977020917noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8278510471239667560.post-76962861378657347572019-01-28T04:44:31.491+00:002019-01-28T04:44:31.491+00:00It's curious that the observant Thomas Bewick ...It's curious that the observant Thomas Bewick considered the 'Black-Backed Gull' to be a single species. And it's odder still that some ornithologists are trying to unify the <i>Larus</i> gulls into a single species again, with subspecies of different sizes -- very much against the modern trend of splitting everything into smaller and smaller groups.Ralph Hancockhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11686354797977020917noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8278510471239667560.post-44386659180744562992019-01-27T21:41:29.955+00:002019-01-27T21:41:29.955+00:00I am going to temporarily put aside my love of sma...I am going to temporarily put aside my love of small birds to favour that fine Great Black-Back. It's like looking at a Great White Shark, or a Nile Crocodile: regardless of sentimental considerations, one cannot be but awed when coming across ruthless evolutionary perfection. Poor Pigeon Killer doesn't stand a chance to hog the limelight this time.TinĂºvielhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04794275230697959519noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8278510471239667560.post-60390214775932870082019-01-26T23:46:16.697+00:002019-01-26T23:46:16.697+00:00No. I looked the code M6AT up on the CR-Birding we...No. I looked the code M6AT up on the CR-Birding web site, which is supposed to list every plastic ring, under both red and orange, since this was an old and faded ring and might have been either. Nothing listed. The site does occasionally miss things.Ralph Hancockhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11686354797977020917noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8278510471239667560.post-43156853556187741852019-01-26T23:16:20.728+00:002019-01-26T23:16:20.728+00:00Impressed with that bird- I've never knowingly...Impressed with that bird- I've never knowingly seen one of them. Feels almost like having met an albatross. As it's ringed : do we know where it's from?Ulrikehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06022985141813875238noreply@blogger.com