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 surfbirds.com - The Siberian Blue Robin in Suffolk
surfbirds.com - The Siberian Blue Robin in Suffolk
Having viewed it for a few minutes, I then tentatively suggested that it might be a Siberian Blue Robin but, having never seen one, was unsure of the identification features.
Spain recorded its first and the Western Palearctic's second Siberian Blue Robin at the Ebre Delta, Tarragona on the 18th of October 2000.
www.surfbirds.com /Rarities/SBRobin.html   (1869 words)

  
 Birding at Beidaihe, east China
Male Siberian Blue Robins are electric blue above, clean white below; fond of thickets, they hop on the ground, tac tac tacking, and furiously vibrating their tails.
China's wintering Siberians, `lost' to ornithology since late last century, were rediscovered at Poyang in the winter of 1980-1981; a reserve was established, and many more birds arrived to enjoy protection from rampant hunting.
Wintering in Southeast Asia, the Siberian Blue Robin is especially vulnerable to the deforestation as, at least in Thailand, it prefers lowland forests, which are invariably the first to be felled.
martinwilliams.tripod.com /beidaihe/beidaihebirding.html   (9238 words)

  
 ORNITHOlogical Tours | BAIKAL LAKE. Birds of the Southern Prebaikal Area.   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Within forest-mountain zone, represented by dark-coniferous taiga, the Nutcracker, Siberian Jay, Siberian Accentor, Three-toed Woodpecker and Red- throated Thrush are widely spread.
It is singing a small, gray bird – the Swinhoe`s Robin, which used to build its nests in rather shallow hollows.
The Siberian Rubythroat, Siberian Blue Robin, Siberian Thrush and Eye-browed Thrush choose dense thickets of bird cherry trees, sometimes the Yellow-browed Bunting joins them.
www.trophyhunt.ru /eng/Ornith/BAIKAL.php   (459 words)

  
 Sichuan
The blue body was rather a slaty blue-gray, with a white patch on each side of the tail.
It's a blue pheasant with ears, of course, not a pheasant with blue ears.
The blue body was rather a slaty blue-grey, with a white patch on each side of the tail.
www.kingbirdtours.com /reports/sichuanre.html   (9240 words)

  
 Finches & Softbills - Basic Softbill care
As a main description softbills are birds that eat insects, fruit or nectar as a main food source.
My Siberian blue robin male finally started to eat a bit of insect-food after 2 months.
White-eyes and Robins for instance will eat the fruit by 'sucking' it up : pecking small pieces from the fruit and then eat it.
www.geocities.com /Heartland/6199/soft.htm   (1561 words)

  
 American Robin
The robin's song is a series of rich caroling notes rising and falling in pitch that sound like cheer up, cheerily, cheer up, cheerily.
I also talked to my Uncle Chuck - the one who said the robin's song is a "melodious whistle" - and he said a robin's diet consists primarily of worms.
However, there is also the clay colored robin, the Siberian blue robin, the white throated robin, and the rufous-backed robin.
www.msu.edu /~burdett2/robin.htm   (694 words)

  
 B-Mail(sm): ID-FRONTIERS for October 15-21, 2000
Siberian Blue Robin in Spain: 2nd for the Western Palearctic
^^ ] Subject: Siberian Blue Robin in Spain: 2nd for the Western Palearctic From: Ricard Gutierrez Date: 18 Oct 2000 4:03pm A 1st year Siberian Blue Robin (Luscinia cyane) has been trapped and ringed on 18.10.2000 at Canal Vell lagoon, Ebro Delta, Catalonia, NE Spain, Europe.
This is the sole 2nd Western Palearctic record of this Siberian migrant.
www.virtualbirder.com /bmail/idfrontiers/200010/w3   (1154 words)

  
 Robin, Jacky-winter, Tomtit information, Robin, Jacky-winter, Tomtit picture
"The American Robin, the largest of the North American thrushes, is found over most of North America in the summer months".
Cool facts and description."Robins are often one of the first birds to sing in the morning, singing long choruses of rhythmic paired phrases of two or three syllables that alternately rise and fall in pitch".
"They belong to the new world robins the Eopsaltriidae, and are not related to the Northern Hemisphere robins".
www.junglewalk.com /info/robin-information.htm   (303 words)

  
 Finches & Softbills - Cordon-blues, Violet-eared waxbill & Purple Grenadier
After quarantine they were both released into my 'aviary' together with Zebrafinches, Pekin robins, Canaries and Button quail.
I had to put my Siberian blue robin in the same small aviary for a while.
This robin gets buffaloworms every day and the violetear male liked them very much.
www.geocities.com /Heartland/6199/11exper.htm   (1528 words)

  
 FONT's Hegura Island Japan Feature   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
In that category, for example, are the shy Japanese Robin, Siberian Blue Robin, and the White's Ground Thrush.
Routine migrants are enroute from where they've wintered in the Asian tropics to where they'll breed as far north as Siberia.
A list of all the bird species (totaling 141) that have been seen during our 4 FONT Hegura Island tours during the spring (in late-April and early and mid-May) follows, including those seen nearby from the ferry.
www.focusonnature.com /HeguraIslandJapanFeature.htm   (1011 words)

  
 FONT's Spring Birding Tour in Japan - May-June 2002   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
A full-day of birding in the Karuizawa area starting early with the fantastic dawn chorus for which the place is known.
A number of birds are to be seen during the day, and among the best of them: the Horsfield's Hawk-Cuckoo, Ruddy Kingfisher, Japanese Green Woodpecker, Narcissus Flycatcher, Siberian Blue Robin, and Red-cheeked Myna.
An assortment of habitats along the coast, and inland, ranging from cliffs by the sea, to fields and forests, streams and ponds.
www.focusonnature.com /JapanMayJun02.html   (955 words)

  
 Siberian Blue Robin -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Siberian Blue Robin -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article
(Largest order of birds comprising about half the known species; rooks; finches; sparrows; tits; warblers; robins; wrens; swallows; etc.; the four suborders are Eurylaimi and Tyranni and Menurae and Oscines or Passeres) Passeriformes
This species is larger than the (Click link for more info and facts about European Robin) European Robin.
www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/s/si/siberian_blue_robin.htm   (251 words)

  
 Birds of Siberia and Central Asia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Sightseeing tour of the typical Siberian city of the XIX century, walk along the Ob' River.
We pass through the Siberian forest-steppe and hilly forests, cross several rivers, including the beautiful Biya River, see typical Siberian countryside with Russian and Altaian villages.
After breakfast, we hike up to the hills covered with typical Siberian taiga (mixed spruce-abies-Siberian pine forest with admixture of birch and larch) to observe forest birds: the tits, leaf warblers, flycatchers, Black-throated Thrush (Turdus atrogularis), Siberian Blue Robin (Luscinia cyane), Siberian Bluetail (Tarsiger cyanurus) and others (about 50-60 species in total).
ecotours.ru /english/tours/bird5.htm   (844 words)

  
 Rare Birds in Spain: Identification
The Siberian Blue Robin, Luscinia cyane at Ebre Delta, Tarragona, 18.10.2000
When you pick up the phone and hear the voice of a serious and reputated member of the Spanish Rarities Committe (CR/SEO) shouting "booooooombaaaaaa!" [bomb](like a well-known summer song title here in Spain), something rare is happening.
The 2nd Western Palearctic Siberian Blue Robin had been trapped hardly 5 minutes ago.
www.terra.es /personal3/gutarb/arbsi002.htm   (549 words)

  
 * Cuckoo - (Bird): Definition   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
The cuckoo is a dove-sized bird with blue grey upper parts, head and chest with dark barred white under parts.
With their sleek body, long tail and pointed wings they are not unlike kestrels or sparrowhawks...
5-7: cuckoos, Olive-backed Pipit, Siberian Blue Robin, Japanese Grey, Siberian Ground and Brown Thrush, Japanese Bush Warbler, Eastern Crowned Warbler,...
www.bestknows.com /bird/cuckoo.html   (552 words)

  
 [No title]   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
The most common resident warbler of the forest is dark-necked tailorbird Orthotomus atrogularis and the most common flycatcher is hill blue flycatcher Cyornis banyumas.
Khao Yai is host to many wintering and migrant birds, most of which are visitors from the north and which inhabit the park from October through to April.
Among those migrants which winter in forest, one of the most abundant, but difficult to see, is the Siberian blue-robin Erithacus cyane which haunts the forest floor.
www.unep-wcmc.org /sites/pa/0698v.htm   (3477 words)

  
 British Ornithologists Union: BOURC News 2002
The date and location were both consistent with natural occurrence, and coincided with the appearance of many other Siberian vagrants in Europe, including a remarkable 28 Radde’s Warblers (which share a similar range to Siberian Blue Robin) in the UK, a Brown Shrike in Germany and two Siberian Accentors in Finland.
The Siberian Blue Robin breeds in Eastern Siberia and China and winters in Southeast Asia.
There are only two previous records of the species in the Western Palearctic, one from Sark, Channel Islands on 27 October 1975 (the first record of the species away from its known breeding and wintering range) and the other from the Ebre Delta, Tarragona, Spain on 18 October 2000.
www.bou.org.uk /recnews02.html   (3647 words)

  
 * Redstart - (Bird): Definition
See also: Warbler, American Redstart, Flycatcher, Robin, FLYCATCHERS
Japanese, Rufous-tailed and Siberian Blue Robin, Red-flanked Bluetail, Daurian Redstart, Siberian Ground, Japanese Grey, Brown, Pale, Eye-browed, Grey-sided &...
As the forest grew back, species such as American Redstarts that live in young forest colonized the area, and birds such as the Field Sparrow,...
en.mimi.hu /bird/redstart.html   (298 words)

  
 WINGS Birding Tours to Thailand: 2005 Tour Narrative   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
For the second successive year we saw the rare Rufous-tailed Robin in addition to the expected Siberian Blue Robin.
Grass fields, waterbodies, scrub and open woodland on an agricultural research campus on the outskirts of the city during a late afternoon session gave us Yellow Bittern, Lesser Whistling-Ducks, Burmese Shrike, two Blue Magpies and a great many easily observed scrub and open country birds that were new for the trip-list.
Large, Small and Vivid Niltavas obliged, as did (briefly) a male White-tailed Robin, but for the most part it proved to be slow going.
wingsbirds.com /narratives/thailand.htm   (2152 words)

  
 Birdquest, Trip Report   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Blue Pittas called from dense thickets, but we barely managed a view as one hopped away from us.
On a spectacular evening when we were treated to a breath-taking light show by thousands of fireflies, we also found two Hodgson’s Frogmouths, perched in a tall forest tree.
A misty dawn on the paddyfields between Fang and Thaton was the setting for some different birding, and we found wintering Black-faced and Yellow-breasted Buntings, Siberian Rubythroats and Bluethroats, Yellow-bellied Prinia, Pied Harrier, an atypically showy Spotted Bush Warbler, Striated Grassbird, Australasian Bushlark, Yellow-eyed Babblers and a better look at some Chestnut-capped Babblers.
www.birdquest.co.uk /trip_reports_detail.cfm?ReportID=275   (1504 words)

  
 Submission No:242   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Median upperwing coverts bright glossy blue, rest of wings fl the outer webs of most feathers blue.
Central tail feathers fl at base becoming dark blue distally; outer feathers white basally, fl distally with blue outer web.
The committee having carefully viewed the article concurred with the authors that this record undoubtedly relates to Australia's first record of a Blue-and-White Flycatcher with members voting unanimously in favour.
users.bigpond.net.au /palliser/barc/sub242.html   (296 words)

  
 Migratory Bird Program - Aleutian Islands
Nearly every year, Asian species make their first North American appearance on the island.
Although the cost of reaching Attu may exceed $5,000, there are those who regard even the possibility of a northern hobby, a spoon-billed sandpiper or a Siberian blue robin well worth the asking price.
Top 10 Birding Spots was compiled by Pete Dunne who is the director of the New Jersey Audubon Society's Cape May Bird Observatory and author of "Tales of a Low Rent Birder," "Feather Quest" and "Before the Echo."
nature.org /initiatives/programs/birds/animals/aleutianislands.html   (233 words)

  
 Beidaihe Trip Report 2002
The Sunday morning was spent at the Summer Palace, among its breathtaking scenery of lakes, willow trees and ornate bridges.
We set about exploring the best birding areas close to the Jin Shan Hotel where we were staying, and plenty of birds, particularly at the renowned Lighthouse Point, ensured that we did not have to go very far.
Thrushes were unusually numerous in those first few days, doubtless the result of the late spring, and included up to 8 Blue Rock, 4 White's, 10 Eye-browed, 25 Dusky, 2 Chinese Song and a Grey-backed.
home.btconnect.com /wildwings/beidaihetr2002.html   (1291 words)

  
 Vivitar by SmarterMall   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Vivitar has the camera - The V3665 2.1 Megapixel Digital Camera is the go-everywhere companion- and it's on sale!
Get "up close and personal" with the Center Fielder or a Siberian Blue Robin with these compact, yet powerful field binoculars.
Improve your photos with this general purpose, affordable Flash.
vivitar.smartermall.com   (78 words)

  
 Japan May - June 2000   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
A number of birds are to be seen during the day, and among the best of them: the Horsfield's Hawk-Cuckoo, Ruddy Kingfisher, Narcissus Flycatcher, Siberian Blue Robin, and Red-cheeked Myna.
for specialties such as the (Rock) Ptarmigan, Japanese Robin, and 2 species of accentors.
Birds would range from Lathan's Snipe to Japanese Skylarks, displaying in the sky, and Siberian Stonechat, Middendorff's Warbler, and Long-tailed Rosefinch, closer to the ground.
www.focusonnature.com /JapanMayJun00.html   (908 words)

  
 Birdfinders - Birdwatching Holidays - Thailand Central and North   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Although this area is largely deforested there are still a number of localised specialities.
These include Grey-headed Parakeet, Himalayan Swiftlet, White-tailed Robin, Crested Finchbill, Brown-breasted Bulbul, White-browed Laughingthrush, Red-faced Liocichla, Striated Yuhina, Hill Prinia, Spot-breasted Parrotbill, Spot-winged Grosbeak and Scarlet Finch.
Day 13 The area to the north of Fang, Tha Ton, is good for a number of specialities, in particular Jerdon's Bushchat.
www.birdfinders.co.uk /tours/thailandcentral.htm   (882 words)

  
 Refuges Text Version
More than 90 Asian bird species have been spotted in the refuge’s Aleutian Islands, especially those from Adak to Attu.
Several have been reported nowhere else in North America: yellow bittern, Chinese egret, lesser white-fronted goose, great spotted woodpecker, narcissus flycatcher, Siberian blue robin, lanceolated warbler, and Eurasian siskin.
Some Asian species are spotted almost annually including the whooper swan, bean goose, an Asian form of the green-winged teal, common pochard, tufted duck, smew, common greenshank, wood sandpiper, long-toed stint, eye-browed thrush, rubythroat, brambling, and rustic bunting.
www.r7.fws.gov /internettv/nwrtv/akmartv/wildlife-wildlands/wildlife/birds/birds.htm   (588 words)

  
 The Wild East: Checklist of the Birds of Beidaihe, east China
Siberian Accentor Prunella montanella eS 4-5, m-lA 5, W
Siberian Rubythroat Erithacus calliope lS 3-4, mA 4
Blue Rockthrush Monticola solitarius philippensis lS, Su?, e-mA 4
martinwilliams.tripod.com /beidaihe/beidaihelist.html   (2551 words)

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