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Old Tige said:
There's no such bird. I think you mean a green woodpecker. Their call, and sometimes the birds themselves is called a "yaffle"

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Or you might mean a greater or a lesser spotted woodpecker which do also have varying degrees of red on them.
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You may well be right, as In a name, It may not of been called a "Red" woodpecker, thou It did have red on It's head & wings.
 
Old Tige said:
There's no such bird. I think you mean a green woodpecker. Their call, and sometimes the birds themselves is called a "yaffle"

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Or you might mean a greater or a lesser spotted woodpecker which do also have varying degrees of red on them.
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There are probably Red Woodpeckers in Australia if he is from that neck of the woods
 
BOJACKHCAFCMAN said:
My guess is those tower blocks down Anlaby Road for the Peregrines and maybe even the KC as I've seen a Falcon sat near the floodlights during a match last season but unfortunately I'm not as good as some as identifying them unless close up or they are flying
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It seems there are rooks/ ravens around the KCOM posing a clear and present threat such that a warning sign is deemed necessary. This is situated at the top of the staircase from the ground to the Argyle St walkway.
Thank **** that **** Bill Oddie is no longer on.
 
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There are no peregrine falcons in Hull. The last one spotted in this area was nesting on Lincoln Cathedral, although one was reported to be nesting on Beverley Minster recently. The hawk filmed in Lincoln was a peregrine, you can tell that by the way a peregrine drops like a stone on its prey below at lightening speed. A sparrow hawks swoops in for the kill at great speed and a kestrel hovers before dropping on its prey.
The 'falcons' seen near the KC will either be a kestrel or a sparrow hawk. There was a nesting sparrow hawk on the Boothferry Estate tower blocks a couple of years ago. They are not rare and the kestrel as well as being Britains smallest bird of prey is also the commonest.
 
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Walter Sobchak said:
Rooks are a 'building', 'parliament' or 'clamour'.

It's a 'murder' of crows.
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My mistake. Never heard parliament attached to rooks though. But these do tend to vary by region. Wiki say's a storytelling of rooks too. I like that one.

Mind it also say's "Don't trust this list; many of these entries are fanciful and never found outside of word lists."


If thee sees one, it's a crow.
If thee sees loads, them's rooks
 
Speaking of aggressive avians (had to avoid birds) :-

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Just ignore all the Alamy copyright ****e btw... It's my ****ing photo the cheeky bastards!

And the're selling downloads of it from £9.99 to £140!!!
 
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Old Tige said:
Speaking of aggressive avians (had to avoid birds) :-

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Just ignore all the Alamy copyright ****e btw... It's my ****ing photo the cheeky bastards!

And the're selling downloads of it from £9.99 to £140!!!
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There is (or was) a very famous wildlife photographer who lost an eye to an Owl attack, they can be very territorial. I was blessed once as a youngster, was out very early (4.30am) on my bike and I had a Barn Owl fly alongside me for a few hundred metres checking me out, they can be fearless.
 
tubbylard said:
There are no peregrine falcons in Hull. The last one spotted in this area was nesting on Lincoln Cathedral, although one was reported to be nesting on Beverley Minster recently. The hawk filmed in Lincoln was a peregrine, you can tell that by the way a peregrine drops like a stone on its prey below at lightening speed. A sparrow hawks swoops in for the kill at great speed and a kestrel hovers before dropping on its prey.
The 'falcons' seen near the KC will either be a kestrel or a sparrow hawk. There was a nesting sparrow hawk on the Boothferry Estate tower blocks a couple of years ago. They are not rare and the kestrel as well as being Britains smallest bird of prey is also the commonest.
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I had the one at the KC down as a Sparrowhawk, seen the Beverley Peregrine last year and also saw one North Yorks Moors near that chalk man or whatever it is, there are some cliffs down there
 
BOJACKHCAFCMAN said:
There is (or was) a very famous wildlife photographer who lost an eye to an Owl attack,
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That'll be Eric Hosking. Lost an eye and found fame and a career.

Fastest animal on earth:-

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Definitely well up in my top five most incredible experiences when I saw one catch a pigeon like this.


The most likely to attack a human in the uk though is the bonxie (great skua).
 
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Old Tige said:
Speaking of aggressive avians (had to avoid birds) :-

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Just ignore all the Alamy copyright ****e btw... It's my ****ing photo the cheeky bastards!

And the're selling downloads of it from £9.99 to £140!!!
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Unless you're City at Wembley, how do you get a lead on an owl? They haven't even got a neck.
 
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