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What are these birds flying in formation?

  • 02-09-2013 7:34pm
    #1
    Judgement Day
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    What are these birds? Large numbers seen flying south over Enniscorthy tonight. Not my picture and sent to me via ipad then onto blogger - hence poor quality. My thought was gulls? Anybody please. :)

    photo.JPG


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  • #2
    neil_hosey
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    Geese or ducks usually fly like that. Youd need a better pic to see which one it was.


  • #3
    Bsal
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    They look like Gulls to me too. I occasionally see small groups pass over me in Swords just before dark headed for the coast.


  • #4
    OpenYourEyes
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    The first decent numbers of Brent Geese have arrived up in the North apparently, so might not be too long before we start seeing some small numbers arriving down here.

    Those birds do look kind of 'thin', without the big body and relatively long neck of Geese or Ducks, so Gulls is probably right.


  • #5
    tricky D
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    I've lived by the sea pretty much all my life and have never seen gulls in V-formation. Geese or ducks, yes.


  • #6
    Judgement Day
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    tricky D wrote: »
    I've lived by the sea pretty much all my life and have never seen gulls in V-formation. Geese or ducks, yes.

    I've seen gulls in V-formation plenty of times but only inland. I didn't see the birds in the picture myself otherwise I would have probably been able to identify them. :)


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  • #7
    tricky D
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    Interesting. Something new learnt.


  • #8
    emo72
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    i remember when i was a kid in the mid 80s :( seeing millions of birds flying like that in formation. i spent a couple of hours one summers/autumn evening watching loads of them fly pass. they were going east to west.


  • #9
    olly_mac
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    Aye, gulls I would think.

    By the way, the Lesser Dyslexic Gull will fly in a P formation... :( Okay, I'll get my hat, coat, cheese sandwiches, and I'll leave... :P


  • #10
    canadianwoman
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    Do you have Canada Geese in Ireland? They fly in a V.


  • #11
    OpenYourEyes
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    canadianwoman wrote: »
    Do you have Canada Geese in Ireland?


    We don't have them in Enniscorthy at the start of September anyway

    We can get small numbers in winter, and there are feral populations in the north and in some counties this side of the border.


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  • #12
    ytpe2r5bxkn0c1
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    canadianwoman wrote: »
    Do you have Canada Geese in Ireland? They fly in a V.

    Yes and no, as Open your eyes said but many species fly in a v formation. It is common among Geese, Ducks, and most migratory birds.


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