Blog from Norway

As many of you know we are living in Norway, and you can find some of my recent photos at: http://norwegianbirds.blogspot.com/ Here are some of the photos you can find in my recent posts.

                                    Eurasian Dotterel

                               White Wagtail

Garden birds from Cochabamba, November 2009

Rusty Flowerpiercer

Sayaca Tanager in strong light.

Yellow-browed Tyrant

Santa Cruz airport, Bolivia (Second Part)

Grassland Sparrow, this is a small sparrow, and it is possible to see the yellow lore on this bird. Grassland Sparrow could be confused with Yellow-browed Sparrow. However, the Yellow-browed Sparrow has more yellow on the face, and lives in a different habitat.
Bobolink, northern migrant in its winter plumage.

Wedge-tailed Grassfinch (next two photos), it's possible to see the pointed tail at the second photo, and at the first photo the birds shove the prominent black streaking at the back.

Crowned Slaty-Flycatcher.

Some more pictures from this day with clouds and rain 09 of November 2009. The pictures are not very colorful, but they might help you to identify passerines in pastures a rainy day in this area.

Santa Cruz airport, Bolivia (First part)

Fork-tailed Flycatcher, there were several around perching together with Eastern Kingbirds.

Enough food!

Yellow-billed Cuckoo.

I stayed several hours at the airport 09 of November 2009. This is a good place to spend some hours watching birds. Unfortunately it was cloudy with some rain in the air as you can see from my photos.

Boca del Rio, Tacna 03.04.10

Ruddy Turnstone

Pectoral Sandpiper (picture 3 &4), although the jizz, black bill and the feathers at the back bothers me, this must be a Pectoral Sandpiper. The breast and olive legs points toward this species. Pectoral Sandpiper can also have a black bill.

Unknown from Colombia II

This bird shoved up in the hotel garden close to the airport in Medellin, July 2008. I never managed to see the face well. From the pictures it is possible to see the reddish at the crown and wings. The breast is and throat looks all dark grey. The bird seems to be a Spinetail, and the best alternatives are Azara's, Silvery-throated. Ash-browed or Slaty Spinetail. The tail is unusually long and Tit-Spinetail shaped (probably because the tail is worn), and could indicate a Silvery-throated or Azara's Spinetail (the somewhat reddish tail seems to indicate the latter). The tail is probably to long for both Ash-browed and Slaty Spinetail, but the coloration of the breast could indicate that this is Salty Spinetail (although the length and colour of the tail don't fit with this species).

It looks like this is Azara's Spinetail, also from one comment I have received.

Unknown from Colombia

This is an unidentified bird from Laguna del Sonso en Colombia, 21. July 2008. The bird had the size of a Kingbird and the bill was dark and strong. It might be a common bird, but I have not managed to identify it yet. I was thinking about Hooded Tanager, but the colour of the legs and eye is wrong (it is also to high or this species). Any suggestions?

Richard Johnston suggests that this is Cinereous Becard, and I think he is right. I miscalculated the size though.