Bird of the Week Challenge: 23rd June - Fourth letter photo

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Bird of the Week Challenge: 23rd June - Fourth letter photo

Ok guys

I hope you all don't mind but I thought i would bring back one of the challenges from a couple of months ago - the letter challenge. This time it is the fourth letter. The guidelines are slightly different to last time (a little stricter) so please make sure that you read the new ones carefully before participating. 

Rules

  • Person A posts a photo (e.g. Purple Swamphen)
  • The next person (person B) has to post a photo of a bird with the first word (not second word) of the bird's common name (the full commonly accepted name for the bird) starting with the fourth letter of the first word in the previous birds name. 
  • So for Purple Swamphen, the next bird could be Purple-crowned Fairy-wren or Pied Butcherbird.
  • Use the bird's full current common name, not scientific name or other names they might go by (e.g. Peewee or Mudlark - it has to be Magpie-lark).
  • 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 2 other people have had a go.
  • The same bird species can be posted more than once (but must be a different photo) and there can be multiple birds in the shot (i.e. it can be a flock of the same species).

 

Annie W
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Cool!

Yellow-throated Honeyeater

West Coast Tasmania

Reflex
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 Fourth letter is L. Little Wattlebird

Samford Valley Qld.

Headsie
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Fourth letter is T

Tufted puffin

Holly
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Wow Headsie - that is a bird I didn't expect! Nice one!

 

Think you have an extra f in there though, I will edit it if you dont mind. Should be Tufted Puffin.

pacman
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4th letter is again T - Tasmanian Nativehen

Peter

Holly
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Oh Reflex - full name is Australian Magpie... do you want to edit and try a different one?

I am going to be tough this time round wink

Reflex
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Holly wrote:

Oh Reflex - full name is Australian Magpie... do you want to edit and try a different one?

I am going to be tough this time round wink

Oopsie! Just delete it Holly.

Samford Valley Qld.

Holly
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No worries Reflex - M is still up for grabs laugh

birdie
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M - MisTletoe Bird

Sunshine Coast Queensland

Elsie
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TawNy Frogmouth,

Annie W
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Nice one Elsie!

West Coast Tasmania

rawshorty
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nanKeen kestrel

Shorty......Canon gear

Canberra

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Elsie
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Thanks AnnieJsmiley I can't wait to see everyones photos!

Reflex
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Can't resist this one. One of my favourite birds and photo's. NanKeen Kestrel.

Samford Valley Qld.

Annie W
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Nankeen twins, love it yes...cross-overs are gonna happen hey.

O.k. tricky one now, (yeah thanks shorty and Reflex laughcheeky) hee hee.  Anyone have a Kalkadoon Grasswren, Kangaroo Island Currawong, Kelp Gull, Kentish Plover, Kerguelen Petrel, Kermandec Petrel, King Penguin or King Quail.  And yes, I know some are near impossible, and no, I haven't checked to see where they are, or if they are still with us laugh

West Coast Tasmania

Annie W
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Both beautiful Kestrel shots by the way!

West Coast Tasmania

pacman
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Kelp Gull - sorry that it took me awhile but I am working laugh

Peter

rawshorty
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Thanks, Anniesmiley

I knew you would sort it, Peterwink

Shorty......Canon gear

Canberra

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Annie W
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Well rescued Peter! laugh

PieOystercatcher

West Coast Tasmania

rawshorty
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I was just about to post a dusKy woodswallow, best not to i thinklaugh

Shorty......Canon gear

Canberra

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

rawshorty
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douBle-banded plover

Shorty......Canon gear

Canberra

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

Reflex
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You must have been lying down to take that photo AnnieJ?

Samford Valley Qld.

timrp
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It is call a photo Challenge. It's supposed to be challenging!

Reflex
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BarN Owl

Samford Valley Qld.

pacman
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NanKeen Night Heron

Peter

timrp
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Edit - Still waiting for a K. The extra long common names do make it tricky!

Holly

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timrp wrote:

King Parrot

That would be an Australian King Parrotwink

Peter has set a hard challengelaugh

Shorty......Canon gear

Canberra

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timrp
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Oh haha didnt think about it that much. Just thought King Parrot not Australian King Parrot. But I do have a Kelp Gull but I have to wait till I can use the PC instead of the Ipad so if anyone else has a bird you can post it.

pacman
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rawshorty wrote:

Peter has set a hard challengelaugh

Doesn't everyone have a King Quail pic?

You might also have said 'That's a good NNH pic as you don't often see them standing in the lagoon during the day!' wink

Peter

sue818
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KelP Gull juvenile and adult. Sorry had it filed under an alternative name. Sue

Reflex
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Pacific Black Duck.

Samford Valley Qld.

dwatsonbb
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PurPle Swamphen edit posted same time sorry, delete if you want Holly and "I" will be a tough, unless some has an Indian Yellow Nosed Abatross they have been hiding!

Dale Huonville, Tasmania

sue818
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Perhaps Intermediate Egret would be easier. Sue

Annie W
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I have an Indian Peafowl.....but that would bring us straight back to I laugh   To add to sues Egret, Inland Thornbill or Dotteral anyone?

West Coast Tasmania

Reflex
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I would post one of my many,  "Indian Yellow Nosed Abatross'' photo's but I have to wait till two more posts before I'm allowed.wink

 I must admit I didn't think about what the next bird was going to be.  

Samford Valley Qld.

Annie W
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Reflex wrote:

I would post one of my many,  "Indian Yellow Nosed Abatross'' photo's but I have to wait till two more posts before I'm allowed.wink

 I must admit I didn't think about what the next bird was going to be.  

laugh

Have to admit, I'd never heard of them before Dale mentioned one, so couldn't help but google it for a sticky.  One seriously attractive Albatross with it's racing stripe beak!

West Coast Tasmania

Reflex
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AnnieJ wrote:
Reflex wrote:

I would post one of my many,  "Indian Yellow Nosed Abatross'' photo's but I have to wait till two more posts before I'm allowed.wink

 I must admit I didn't think about what the next bird was going to be.  

laugh

Have to admit, I'd never heard of them before Dale mentioned one, so couldn't help but google it for a sticky.  One seriously attractive Albatross with it's racing stripe beak!

I didn't know there was such a bird. Trouble is the fourth letter would still be "I".sad

Samford Valley Qld.

birdie
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IntErmediate Egret  .... that is the full name isnt it?

Sunshine Coast Queensland

Headsie
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EleGant parrot.

sue818
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GreY Whistler so where are those Yellow ones? Sue

Annie W
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How about a Yellow Wattlebird.

West Coast Tasmania

sue818
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What a beautiful bird, Annie. Are they common in Tasmania as I do not recall seeing one before? Sue

Annie W
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They're are a striking bird.  A Tasmanian endemic Sue & the largest Aus Wattlebird.  Relatively common except for the West of the State I believe, although I haven't seen them very often myself in the North - not looking in the right places probably laugh

Apologies Reflex, I missed your comment re the Pied Oystercatcher.  Yes, lying on the cold wet sand smiley.

West Coast Tasmania

Headsie
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LitTle corella.

dwatsonbb
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TawNy Frogmouth, we are allowed to post the same species? Just not the same photo?

Dale Huonville, Tasmania

Reflex
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NoiSy Miner.

Samford Valley Qld.

sue818
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SpaNgled Drongo.

rawshorty
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pacman wrote:
rawshorty wrote:

Peter has set a hard challengelaugh

Doesn't everyone have a King Quail pic?

You might also have said 'That's a good NNH pic as you don't often see them standing in the lagoon during the day!' wink

How rude of mesad

That is a great pic, Peter.

Are you still using the 1Div and one of your many Canon "L" primes or have you upgraded to something betterlaughcheeky

Shorty......Canon gear

Canberra

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rawshorty
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noiSy friarbird

Shorty......Canon gear

Canberra

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Reflex
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There's no doubt about it. It has to be said that's the ugliest bird I have ever seen! Even it's own mother would deny having anything to do with that.

Samford Valley Qld.

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