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Yet another bird to be identified please!

cfitz · 2009-07-23 08:39:13

Hello again, I was running in a GAA field just outside Portlaoise yeasterday at lunch time and I saw a really large bird. Even though it flew around a little bit, it always seemed to have it's back to me so I don't have much details to give here. I don't know much about birds so my description might not be great anyway. I…

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cfitz

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Hello again,

I was running in a GAA field just outside Portlaoise yeasterday at lunch time and I saw a really large bird. Even though it flew around a little bit, it always seemed to have it's back to me so I don't have much details to give here. I don't know much about birds so my description might not be great anyway. I posted this thread a while back about a bird I saw, and after the discussion I thought I'd seen maybe a hen harrier or a buzzard and others thought it must have been a buzzard.

Back to this bird though - it was way bigger than the bird I posted about in the old thread. It was like the size of a seagull maybe and maybe similar in its style of flying. However it seemed to be all dark, probably brown but maybe greyish. It wasn't flying that high - maybe about the height of a 5-story building. So, could it have been a darkly coloured seagull in Portlaoise? Or what might it have been?

Thanks for any help!

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#2 23-07-2009 8:58am

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Could have been a juvenile seagull, they have brown speckled plumage for quite a while and can be huge. Without a picture it is hard to say tho

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#3 23-07-2009 5:05pm

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Possibly a Raven

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