Bird ID

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Original Poster:

10,345 posts

250 months

Friday 9th December 2022
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What do you think this one was please.
Yorkshire/Lancashire moorland.
Ground bird
Size was somewhere from a blackbird to a pigeon.
Cream and maybe a couple of shades of brown stripes down the length of it's body, overall it was brown.

It was on the ground when I walked near so never saw it until it flew off.

Google hasn't thrown up much, only a European Golden Plover in it's Summer colours looks similar, but it's Winter....

Jordie Barretts sock

6,018 posts

26 months

Friday 9th December 2022
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Partridge?


Nimby

4,907 posts

157 months

Friday 9th December 2022
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If not, try the RSPB identifier.

Evoluzione

Original Poster:

10,345 posts

250 months

Friday 9th December 2022
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No it wasn't a game bird, they're always noisy, erratic and don't fly so well. After it's initial shock it settled into a decent flight.
Will just have to hope I see it again, maybe leave some seed out with the camera and see what else is there. The problem is it's steaming up or frosting over at the moment. It would be good to picture birds which won't come near the house to feed.
The RSPB thing takes me to Golden Plover Summer plumage....

TheBALDpuma

5,871 posts

175 months

Saturday 10th December 2022
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Did it have a big old beak?

Boosted LS1

21,198 posts

267 months

Sunday 11th December 2022
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Snipe perhaps? Fast flight with some zig zags.

Gretchen

19,232 posts

223 months

Tuesday 13th December 2022
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Grouse?