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Yet another bird to be identified please!

  • 23-07-2009 9:39am
    #1
    cfitz
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,691 ✭✭✭


    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
    Rainbowsend
    Registered Users Posts: 938 ✭✭✭Rainbowsend


    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 :)


  • #3
    123oclock
    Closed Accounts Posts: 23 ✭123oclock


    Possibly a Raven


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