Bunch of bluethroat studies I did back in 2023
Oh, and I do actually have a story with this one OvO
During the summer months I travel the country to visit my relatives, they live in a small town surrounded by nature and absolutely filled with birbs of all kinds. Including bluethroats! In part of the country where I live, bluethroats are listed in the Red List of Threatened Species i.e. extremely rare, but over where my relatives live, bluethroats are absolutely everywhere and live not only in town's outskirts but also in people's gardens. These curious birdies mix-tape other birds' calls and sing these at night, being particularly active in late spring and early summer.
One of my relatives is an avid birder with an exceptionally sharp hearing; when birdwatching together, I've always marveled at how he can not only identify almost any bird by its call, but also locate singing birbs hiding in a deep canopy just by the sound. Last year we organized to "switch turns" and brought them here to show them the city. They were renting a place in the very outskirts where a row of 7 storey building was directly neighbouring a large field flattened for development and abandoned, slowly transforming into either swamp or improvised dog park.
One day I was accompanying them to their place. We stepped out the bus, it was a late at evening, row of flats towering to our left and swampy dog park sprawling to our right. The bus took off and we were about to cross the street when the ol' birder has stopped in his tracks and perked up his ears. I heard nothing but some sparrows chirping exceptionally loudly, but he was like: "Hold my beer". We sprinted to their place and rushed back with a super-zoom camera - sparrows still chirping, albeit from the different spot - mere 3 minutes later we were tailing a bluethroat who turned out to mimic these noises along with great-tit's calls, crow caws and some birds af prey screeching mixed in for a good measure. As an amature birder myself I was extremely impressed with this whole situation. Not only by how sharply my relative reacted, but also because of who we have found. Bluethroats are in the Red List of Threatened Species over here, if you recall. OvO
Oh, and I do actually have a story with this one OvO
During the summer months I travel the country to visit my relatives, they live in a small town surrounded by nature and absolutely filled with birbs of all kinds. Including bluethroats! In part of the country where I live, bluethroats are listed in the Red List of Threatened Species i.e. extremely rare, but over where my relatives live, bluethroats are absolutely everywhere and live not only in town's outskirts but also in people's gardens. These curious birdies mix-tape other birds' calls and sing these at night, being particularly active in late spring and early summer.
One of my relatives is an avid birder with an exceptionally sharp hearing; when birdwatching together, I've always marveled at how he can not only identify almost any bird by its call, but also locate singing birbs hiding in a deep canopy just by the sound. Last year we organized to "switch turns" and brought them here to show them the city. They were renting a place in the very outskirts where a row of 7 storey building was directly neighbouring a large field flattened for development and abandoned, slowly transforming into either swamp or improvised dog park.
One day I was accompanying them to their place. We stepped out the bus, it was a late at evening, row of flats towering to our left and swampy dog park sprawling to our right. The bus took off and we were about to cross the street when the ol' birder has stopped in his tracks and perked up his ears. I heard nothing but some sparrows chirping exceptionally loudly, but he was like: "Hold my beer". We sprinted to their place and rushed back with a super-zoom camera - sparrows still chirping, albeit from the different spot - mere 3 minutes later we were tailing a bluethroat who turned out to mimic these noises along with great-tit's calls, crow caws and some birds af prey screeching mixed in for a good measure. As an amature birder myself I was extremely impressed with this whole situation. Not only by how sharply my relative reacted, but also because of who we have found. Bluethroats are in the Red List of Threatened Species over here, if you recall. OvO
Category Artwork (Digital) / Animal related (non-anthro)
Species Avian (Other)
Gender Other / Not Specified
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Wow... such a story! I'm not good at bluethroat identification, seems it will be more difficult to find this bird in the fields as I thought
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