{"id":2058474,"date":"2019-05-01T18:00:00","date_gmt":"2019-05-01T16:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/?guid=58da5c46730d7c2fde60fa89fd93a38f"},"modified":"2019-12-23T01:43:45","modified_gmt":"2019-12-22T12:43:45","slug":"black-throated-diver-and-dodgy-duck","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/black-throated-diver-and-dodgy-duck\/","title":{"rendered":"Black-throated Diver and Dodgy Duck"},"content":{"rendered":"

Yet another day that didn\u2019t feel birdy but still had enough going on to keep it interesting. My first House Martin of the year was my only year tick but I did have my first Osprey for Maridalen, Willow Warblers, Three-toed pecker and an interesting female Tufted (type) Duck that may be a hybrid.<\/p>\n

The real interest today though was what I didn\u2019t see. First, a check on Facebook revealed a link on a Swedish site to a Finnish GPS tagged Pallid Harrier that was in Northern Denmark yesterday. Thinking that this bird\u2019s next step may be Norway I opened the website and sure enough the last plot was to the south east of Nordre \u00d8yeren! I shared this news and soon after a message came in that a Red Kite had just been observed trying to steal a fish from an Osprey at \u00c5rnestangen. Not surprisingly I spent a lot of time gaxing skywards after this but to no avail.<\/p>\n

An evening dog walking trip around Sognsvann along with hundreds of walkers, joggers and dogs produced an extremely photogenic Black-throated Diver just metres from land that no body else seemed to notice!<\/p>\n

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Black-throated Diver (storlom). Only when looking through the pictures on the computer did I realise that I should have thought about the reflection<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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the red reflection is from the clothing of a jogger<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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here is Oslo Birder Jr in the background<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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and a couple of her pictures – she has a much better eye for getting the bird in habitat<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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showing how close the bird was to the shoreline. This is very atypical behaviour but the bird seemed fine<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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This duck really stood out from the other Tufted Ducks (toppand) but despite the large amount of white around the bill was clearly not a Scaup (bergand) due to it having a tuft and a broad, pale subterminal band on the bill. But is it just a wierd female Tufted or perhaps a hybrid? The pale feathers in the head suggest that it has a pigment problem which could also explain the extreme amount of white around the bill. The pale feathers could also perhaps be from a hybrid influence but what other species has a pale head?<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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here the head shape can suggest Ring-necked Duck (ringand) but I don’t see anything else to suggest that and photos of the bird in flight (taken by Odd Rigenholt on FB) show normal Tufted Duck wingbars.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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head profile changes<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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here it looks structurally like a normal Tufted which is most likely what it is<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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here the pale feathering can be see really well<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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Yet another day that didn\u2019t feel birdy but still had enough going on to keep it interesting. My first House Martin of the year was my only year tick but I did have my first Osprey for Maridalen, Willow Warblers, Three-toed pecker and an interesting female Tufted (type) Duck that may be a hybrid. The […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1905,"featured_media":2149264,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[6984,5],"tags":[713,745,786,3273,8467,1411,876],"class_list":["post-2058474","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blogs","category-wildlife","tag-house-martin","tag-pallid-harrier","tag-red-kite","tag-ring-necked-duck","tag-scaup","tag-tufted-duck","tag-willow-warbler"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2058474","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1905"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2058474"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2058474\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2149264"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2058474"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2058474"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2058474"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}