Rome and Tuscany Aug 2007 Photo Gallery by Dale Provost at pbase.com

Rome and Tuscany Aug 2007

Since we had never birded Italy before, we were not familiar with the birds, except for studying them beforehand. So, please give input for those I have not identified and if I have misidentified any.

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Rome: Pigeon near top of Spanish Steps.	another view	Rome - Yellow-legged Gull.	same bird
Rose Ringed Parakeet. Villa Medici	(European) Robin	(Common) (European) Blackbird [Turdus merula]	juvienile Common Blackbird
Italian Sparrow (Cross between House Sparrow and Spanish Sparrow)	Hooded Crow	Hooded Crow	Hooded Crows
Common Raven. Corvus corax. In Montepulciano	Spotted Flycatcher at Sant'Antonio	Spotted Flycatcher at Sant'Antonio	Europen Bee Eater. They would fly over the pool at Sant'Antonio every day
European Bee Eater	Bee Eater	Bee Eater	(Eurasian) Collared Dove
Wood Pigeon at Sant'Antonio	Common Buzzard [Buteo buteo]	Common Buzzard	Common Buzzard
Wood Pigeon at Sant'Antonio	Barn Swallows	Common Pheasant. [Phasianus colchicus]	Pheasants duking it out.
same	same battle	Stock Dove	Eurasian Widgeon. Lake Montipulciano LIPU
	Eurasian Coot. [Fulica atra] Not a great picture, but notice that the white frontal shield extends higher than American Coot	(Common) Kingfisher [Alcedo atthis]	Little Egret.
Great Crested Grebe. Lake Montipulciano	Great Crested Grebe	Great Crested Grebe	Little Grebe. Lake Montipulciano.
Little Grebe. Lake Montipulciano.	Mallard	Juvenile (Black Crowned ) Night Heron, Lake Montepulciano	Black-crowned Night-Heron
European Starling (same as ours)	Tree full of Bee Eaters at Lake Montepulciano	Grey Heron. Lake Montepulciano	Purple Heron
Greylag Goose. Lake Montipulciano LIPU	Grey Heron	The Group.

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Norman and Cheryl Lavers		12-Sep-2007 14:52
Incredible picture of the Kingfisher...we know how shy they can be. We have spent a lot of time in the U.K. and also on the island of Majorca in the Mediterranean, though it has been a while. Here are a few thoughts. The gull does look like a Herring-type. Med. gulls are more along the lines of a Black-headed and only a bit larger than they are, the wings tend to be broader and rounder in general shape. The Bee-eaters are gorgeous birds. Obviously they eat bees as well as wasps which they catch and then beat against a branch to remove the stings before they swallow them. The swallows are Barn Swallows but are just called The Swallow in Europe (like The Robin) and yes, we believe that is an immature Blackbird. We really think that could be a Stock Dove (pale rump and what looks like it might be the shiny green patch on the neck) If you have other pictures you might try to see if it has a black eye (white in the Wood P.- visible in your Wood P. photo) If it flew and had white through the wings I guess it would have to be a Wood P. It is nice that you had good birding there. The word used to be that Italy had trapped and eaten most of its migrant birds and was not a great place to birdwatch. I know that efforts to stop the killing have been made by brave crusaders. Thanks for sharing the pictures, Norman and Cheryl Lavers

David Ray		12-Sep-2007 12:45
Hey Dale, Thanks for sharing the photos of birds that we will never see on this side of the pond!

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