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Three unidentified birds<\/h4>\n\n\n\n
During the six hours we spent in Parque del Bicentenario<\/em> we observed and identified 51 species. We thought that was very good (see the eBird<\/a> checklist: https:\/\/ebird.org\/view\/checklist\/S55600087<\/a>). <\/p>\n\n\n\n But we had also observed three birds that we could not identify. <\/p>\n\n\n\n It was some small brown passerines that were foraging in the vegetation at the small island in the lake. When they flew up in the vegetation, they showed a reddish-brown color in the wings. They didn’t perch for long, and because of heat shimmer, it was hard to get anything out of them<\/em> in the telescope.<\/p>\n\n\n\n We couldn’t find any birds that looked like them in the Aves Argentina App<\/em> or in our field guide (Aves de Argentina y Uruguay), which we bought in a bookstore in Salta after a little language confusion where we were shown other “interesting” books. <\/p>\n\n\n\n We managed to get some documentation photos. The kind of photos you surely won\u2019t win prices for, but a documentation photo can be of great help in identifying a bird you have seen \u2013 or in excluding species. <\/p>\n\n\n\n The images we got of the three passerines were not very good, but we would check them later when we were back in the apartment in Salta. A computer screen is somewhat larger than the screen on the back of the camera, so with some luck we might be able to see more details and perhaps identify the birds based on images on the internet. <\/p>\n\n\n\n As a reminder to myself, I entered the following: Bird sp. (Aves sp.) 3<\/em> in the eBird app,<\/em> and added the comment “got some very bad photos”.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Despite searching the internet (including Neotropical Birds<\/a><\/em> and HBW Alive<\/a><\/em>), countless leaf throughs of our field guide and the Aves Argentina app<\/em>, we couldn’t get any species to fit with “our” birds. The closest, which had some similarities, was the Rusty-backed Monjita<\/strong>. But according to eBird, the species was not registered in the park! We mostly believed that it was a very common species we had seen. For now, we had to place them in the “box”<\/em> with unidentified birds. A few days later we would participate in Global Big Day. We were going with some local birders and hoped they could help.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The help came sooner than expected. I forgot to delete my entry of an “indefinite bird species” from the eBird checklist. I found out when I received an eBird-review email from Giselle<\/em> \u2013 one of two local eBird reviewers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n “Arhh s…!”. My first thought was that we had made a misidentification, or that I had made a typo and reported a very large number of a scarce species. But that was not why I was contacted. It was because of my entry of “three<\/em> unspecified<\/em> birds”.<\/em> Entering an unspecified bird cannot be used for anything, because it really just means that you have seen a bird! And that bird could be any of the 1000 species that exist in Argentina.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Embarrassing! I had forgotten to delete, what was just a reminder to myself before I uploaded the checklist to eBird. It was not meant to have been uploaded at all but it turned out to be very fortunate. Giselle offered that she could try to identify the birds we had seen if I sent her the pictures. She got the images, and then we waited in excitement for the result.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The article continues belov this Advertisement<\/p><\/div>![\"eBird](\"https:\/\/albicillaexplorer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/Birding_ParqueDelBicentenario_DSC_0414-1024x768.jpg\")
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Placed in the “box” with unidentified birds <\/h4>\n\n\n\n
An oversight<\/h4>\n\n\n\n