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Congratulations barryels!

Sorry Sky, I will not be able to submit answers this week! You know I appreciate your hard work, but I simply don't have the time this week, and next week we're not here anyway!

Ja nee

8/10 plus the BB for me.

Can't believe I missed that sea bird though...! Lol!

Hi all the stay at home Ducklings
Here is Sky 21
Thanks again to Johan van Rensburg for all the lovely pics

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and the BB


Enjoy

Hi Hatchlings
I see you are all doing well in this challenge
I will have to step it up a bit

So here is Hatch 4

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Enjoy

Hi All,

This looks like fun. How do I play? Wait for answers and mark myself or PM the answers?

I presume I am allowed to use my books to identify the birds - at least at first?!?!

Alasdair

Welcome Soft Top!

You're quite correct - it is great fun and you're encouraged to use books and electronic media to find the answers which you send via pm to whoever sets the quiz. In this case, it's the hard-working Sky.

Hi Ducklings

Here are the answers to Sky 20

1) Grey Tit (Easily confused with the Ashy Tit)
Robberts says the following
"a misleading name , not as grey as the Ashy Tit. Has buff (not dark grey) flanks and underparts, Brownish (not blue-grey) back and less white on the hind neck


2) Common Quail- This one is larger than a button quail and has a different shaped head


3) Brimstone Canary
"A large thickset canary, heavier billed than the Yellow Canary with a greenish wash to the breast and flanks"


4) Greater Striped swallows
"Larger in size and more finely streaked below than the Lesser Striped
swallow. Pale cheeks where the Lesser has rufous cheeks


5) Squacco Heron - no problems here


6) Laughing dove - no problems here


7) Kelp gull
" A large white heade gull with black mantle, Larger and heavier bill than the Lesse Black-backed gull. Legs usually yellow-green"


8 ) African wattled Lapwing - No problems here



9) Black Winged Pranticole
"Easily confused with the collared pranticole. Key features are black underwing coverts.


10) South African Cliff-Swallow
"Similar to striped swallows. Breast mottled(not streaked) and crown usually brownish"


and the BB
A Juvenile Wood-Hoopoe

8/11 for me for this week's one...

Some tricky IDs in there...

Well knock me down with a feather!!!!!!! Would never have got the BB in #20

When I saw it , I thought this might be a good BB
It visits the garden with another young and some adults everyday.

Woo hoo - 8/8 on Hatch 4

First go at this - absolutely stoked.

Just submitted my answers in on Sky 21. Keeping fingers crossed as I am barely a duckling, more like and eggling at present.

And 8/10 for Sky 21

Hi Sky, I think my pm's to you got lost somewhere in cyber space. so I marked it myself.

8/8 for Hatchlings and only 5/10 for Ducklinks and no BB either.....

Hi supermongoose
I think mine got lost not yours.
I remarked that the birds you had wrong was difficult ones for a hatchling
So i thought that you well
The bb was very misleading with its black bill, short at that, as well as it's short tail feathers
Very view people had this correct.