Any fellow birdwatchers out there?

[Ribh]

Our Wood Ducks.

 

[Ribh]

Mopokes are actually a true owl species wise and different than s frogmouth.

Ok ~ there seems to be some difference of opinion on that. I call them an owl ~ but I'm not terribly knowedgable ~ & here the names are interchangable because I can assure you this calls mopoke.

 

[A_Fowl_Guy]

Ok ~ there seems to be some difference of opinion on that. I call them an owl ~ but I'm not terribly knowedgable ~ & here the names are interchangable because I can assure you this calls mopoke.

mopoke

noun
Also called (NZ): ruru a smallspotted owl, Ninox novaeseelandiae, of Australia and New Zealand. In Australia the tawny frogmouth,Podargus strigoides, is very often wrongly identified as the mopoke.

Seems to be two separate species that one is misidentified as the other.

 

[OhZark Biddies]

Ok ~ there seems to be some difference of opinion on that. I call them an owl ~ but I'm not terribly knowedgable ~ & here the names are interchangable because I can assure you this calls mopoke.

Never heard of either, but these links might help clarify:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tawny_frogmouth
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morepork

 

[Ribh]

mopoke

noun
Also called (NZ): ruru a smallspotted owl, Ninox novaeseelandiae, of Australia and New Zealand. In Australia the tawny frogmouth,Podargus strigoides, is very often wrongly identified as the mopoke.

Seems to be two separate species that one is misidentified as the other.

Yep: here https://www.owlpages.com/owls/articles.php?a=95
What the scientific community calls a species & what us plebs do are not always the same thing. I'm a garden variety birdwatcher & call things by their most common name ~ which may not be scientifically correct. If I say mopoke round here this is the bird most people will think of. Makes it confusing. And lots of our birds are mimics so, though I know the oom, oom is the frogmouth I'd swear to the mopoke call as well.

 

[OhZark Biddies]

Yep: here https://www.owlpages.com/owls/articles.php?a=95
What the scientific community calls a species & what us plebs do are not always the same thing. I'm a garden variety birdwatcher & call things by their most common name ~ which may not be scientifically correct. If I say mopoke round here this is the bird most people will think of. Makes it confusing. And lots of our birds are mimics so, though I know the oom, oom is the frogmouth I'd swear to the mopoke call as well.

Indeed, I've had to figure out the local names of a lot of birds over the years to figure out what the subject bird was in a field guide.... around here for instance we refer to a "rain crow" that we hear in the summer... it's the yellow billed cuckoo to folks in other parts of the country

 

[Ribh]

These are pied butcher birds. The one on the left was crowing like a rooster. Our bird life doesn't make it easy.

 

[A_Fowl_Guy]

These are pied butcher birds. The one on the left was crowing like a rooster. Our bird life doesn't make it easy.

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Yeah the northern mockingbirds around here drive me nuts. Especially the one that can mimic my alarm clock perfectly at any hour.

 

[Ribh]

And this is a drongo. One round here used to sound like a car alarm going off every morning around 5am. Sorry for the poor quality of the pictures. Lucky to get a shot @ all.

 

[Alexandra33]

From past experience I expect our robins are different to yours, just as they are different to the English ones. At times I can count over 200 species without leaving my verandah ~ it's a bit of a wild life corridor here.

The pittas seem to be a very calm bird. They're a ground dweller so the cats tend to round them up but they don't kill them, just nab them & bring them to me. lol A lot of the water birds I can't id & the raptors can be hard to id in molt. Because we are part of a cluster of small islands we sometimes see several species of raptor riding the thermals for fun & I've seen as many as 30 @ one time, just having fun.

Sounds about right. I'd love to switch places with you for a day. While the birds here do sing, they're normally quite pleasant, and not terribly noisy.

Just lovely! Nothing quite like a mellow species. Your cats must be docile creatures, as well.

Both raptors and eclipsed waterfowl can be difficult!

We have loads of owls around. Eastern Screech Owls are the most prolific. The is the great horned owl. The rare ones are barn and snowy owls!

Goodness, how awesome! I spotted red/gray morph Screech Owls during a Lake Erie trip this month....it was exhilarating. Hoping someday to add Great Horned, Barn, and Snowy to my list of lifers.

You would like ours: Frogmouth [mopoke]:not a true owl, but no~one here makes that distinction.
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Aren't those simply to-die-for! They almost remind me slightly of Common Nighthawks.

Our Wood Ducks.
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Amazing! The difference between our Wood ducks is stark.

~Alex