What is this little bird?
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cliffords

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4,004 posts

51 months

Sunday 25th January
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There are heaps of them here is Southern Spain right now . They are really tame . Going in the house to pick up crumbs etc .

What is the bird ?

Speed1283

1,196 posts

123 months

Sunday 25th January
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cliffords said:
There are heaps of them here is Southern Spain right now . They are really tame . Going in the house to pick up crumbs etc .

What is the bird ?
Just a sparrow

TwigtheWonderkid

48,733 posts

178 months

Tuesday 27th January
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Wow, that's a Stresemann's Bristlefront, the world's rarest bird. Actually, looking closer, he's right, it's a sparrow.

Skodillac

9,769 posts

58 months

Tuesday 27th January
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I believe the Latin is "Cock Spugga".

croyde

26,119 posts

258 months

Tuesday 27th January
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TwigtheWonderkid said:
Wow, that's a Stresemann's Bristlefront, the world's rarest bird. Actually, looking closer, he's right, it's a sparrow.
I used to impress an ex girlfriend with my bird knowledge.

What's that!

Oh! that's a Lesser Spotted Roach Warbler.

She believed me biggrin

Landlubber

989 posts

77 months

Tuesday 27th January
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Disco faced monkey hawk.

cliffords

Original Poster:

4,004 posts

51 months

Tuesday 27th January
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These birds are quite bold and very keen on seeing what food we may have. They will come in our apartment and I have to chase them out . I have learnt not to feed them as they come in force. At one point I had about 6 of them sitting on me . I won't do that again as they poo on you smile
They are much more confident than UK birds. The Robin in our garden in the UK will get close ,these Spanish Birds are very friendly.

Oh er.

Simpo Two

92,425 posts

293 months

Tuesday 27th January
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cliffords said:
These birds are quite bold and very keen on seeing what food we may have. They will come in our apartment and I have to chase them out . I have learnt not to feed them as they come in force. At one point I had about 6 of them sitting on me . I won't do that again as they poo on you smile
They are much more confident than UK birds. The Robin in our garden in the UK will get close ,these Spanish Birds are very friendly.

Oh er.
Well, when you said 'I'm going to Spain to pull some birds'... you got what you asked for nuts

Super Sonic

13,806 posts

82 months

Tuesday 27th January
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Skodillac said:
I believe the Latin is "Cock Spugga".
I was going to do a pun on this, so I googled it to make sure it was for real. Thanks for the disturbing mental image yuck

Brent Hoffmeister

206 posts

44 months

Tuesday 27th January
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Simpo Two said:
Well, when you said 'I'm going to Spain to pull some birds'... you got what you asked for nuts
The RSPB takes a very dim view on bird pulling