Here is a Laughing Gull taken at Dauphin Island, AL. I did not adjust the Red Slider! lol
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Congrats and chapeau.
Wonderful results. Wonderful little bird.Until today I only managed to get my birdcalls app to tell me that a realtive of the goldcrest, the firecrest was singing nearby. I couldn't even spot it
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What app do you use? Does it recognise calls and songs or just play them and you have to compare?Congrats and chapeau.
Until today I only managed to get my birdcalls app to tell me that a realtive of the goldcrest, the firecrest was singing nearby. I couldn't even spot it
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The second one is some ways more interesting because it shows the crest properly, which you don't get in the more "artistic poses".
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I use the app "BirdNet" from the TU Chemnitz in cooperation with the Cornell University in Ithaca, New York. It's a crowd science project.
(see press report)
You can record calls and then the recording can be directly analyzed. Results depend from background noise but I am pleased.
It is free for android and iOS. They only ask you to share your location anonymously and birds you have detected, gathering data which birds have been localized where.
Edit: Latest press report is from March 2021.
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This is another picture I took several days later nearby that tree where I first spotted a treecreeper.
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Thank you very much, Alan! Hearing that from you is almost like being knighted
I think with this perspective an ornithologist could tell me if this is a certhia familiaris (common t.) or c. brachydactyla (short-toed t.).
I couldn't find any picture telling me the difference if this has shorter or longer toes. I think they're pretty long, aren't they ?
Please let me know how it works for you.
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I've checked it out - it worked on the birds in my back garden.Thank you very much, Alan! Hearing that from you is almost like being knighted
I think with this perspective an ornithologist could tell me if this is a certhia familiaris (common t.) or c. brachydactyla (short-toed t.).
I couldn't find any picture telling me the difference if this has shorter or longer toes. I think they're pretty long, aren't they ?
Please let me know how it works for you.
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Congrats! This one of birds that puts your reflexes to a serious test: by the time you frame it, AF does its job, you click... the birdie is gone, hopped on the next branch, against the light, half hidden, its tail towards you or directly above. And it starts of the branch so quickly I had it on 7D2 fast frame rate (12/s) visible in one shot and completely gone on next, with at least half meter visible across the frame empty. Sigh... Put a goldcrest on your family crest!
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These are difficult to shoot - exposed on good light is rare case and they move fast. So, I like both shots by this reason but the first one is obviously better!
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Yes, I took that photo early morning and it's of a first (year) non-breeding bird. In your case it's mixed - some birds are in transition to breeding plumage. Very nice collection: I have never seen that numbers at once here!
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"...by the time you frame it, AF does its job, you click... the birdie is gone" - by my experience you have a serious chance to get at least very out of focus tail (or something hard to recognize!)
BTW to say Curlew is not enough: here (on Canon Rumors) we are from different parts of the world. Your Curlew is the Eurasian Curlew (Numenius arquata).
Here you have two shots of the only Curlew that is regularly coming to my Islands in good numbers - the Bristle-Thighed Curlew (N. tahitiensis). The other one is the Whimbrel that I still have to see by myself
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