Archive for the 'Birding bloopers' Category

I have been featuring some birding bloopers - or badly misidentified birds - over recent days. This one is from the contributors to the Birding-Aus forum and comes from Eddie in Voss, Norway.
My best blooper (there have been many, but this is the best one) happened many years ago. I was half way up a […]

I’ve been featuring a number of birding bloopers on this blog. These bloopers are essentially misidentifications of birds and are often quite hilarious and always embarrassing.
Simon contributed this gem to the Birding-Aus forum:
Recently while showing an overseas visitor around my local area I screeched to a halt when I spotted a Black-shouldered Kite perched […]

Several weeks ago I wrote about other birders and the various birding bloopers that they were brave enough to admit to on-line. Now its my turn - unfortunately.
Yesterday while driving down a road near my home I passed a bright yellow bird-like bundle obviously dead on the road. As I went by I immediately thought […]

Over the last two days I’ve reported some of the bloopers other birders have reported on BIRDCHAT. Here is yet another one - actually, today you get two for the price of one, both from Kathy:
While in Alaska at a B&B at dusk I was unpacking my car and there was a Great Horned Owl […]

Yesterday I wrote about some of the mistakes I, and others have made trying to identify birds. Sometimes what we think is a bird is something else completely, something like a stone that looks like a bird at first glance. Other birders have similar experiences, I’m happy to report, like Steve admitted on BIRDCHAT:
The one […]