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Bird watching field trip to the Camargue (France)
08.-15.4.2017
 The group of 2017 at "Saline de Giraud" |  Little Egret (Seidenreiher), black beak, black legs and yellow toes (if not dirty as here) |
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 Cattle Egret (Kuhreiher), Short neck, yellow beak and greyish legs. Note the yellow/orange feathers on head, breast and back. |  Great Egret (Silberreiher), much bigger than the other two, black beak (during breeding time, otherwise yellow) and dark legs |
 Sqacco Heron (Rallenreiher), small, yellow to light brownish, beak blue with dark tip |  Purple Heron (Purpurreiher), head and neck reddish brown, dark body |
 Grey Heron (Graureiher), |  Spoonbill (Löffler), all white with black legs. Characteristic black bill with yellow tip. |
 Coot (Blässhuhn), dark grey with black head, white forehead and beak |  Common Moorhen (Teichhuhn), dark with red forehead, red beak with yellow tip, green legs and toes |
 Avocet (Säbelschnäbler), black and white with characteristic upcurved bill |  Black-winged Stilt (Stelzenläufer), long pink legs, long thin black bill, black above and white below |
 Greater Flamingo (Rosaflamingo), mostly pinkish white, but the wing coverts are red and the primary and secondary flight feathers are black. Pink bill with a black tip. Legs are entirely pink |  Young flamingo, mostly grey with black flight feathers. Bill is yellow with black tip and legs are black |
 Mute Swan (Höckerschwan), orange bill with pronounced black knob atop the beak |  Caspian Tern (Raubseeschwalbe), biggest tern, as big as a gull. Compare size of the common terns. Black legs, gig red bill with dark tip, white head with black cap |
 Common Tern (Flussseeschwalbe), black cap, orange-red legs, and a narrow pointed mostly red bill with a black tip |  White-cheeked Tern (Weisswangen-Seeschwalbe), similar as Common Tern, but upper side of wings and back darker grey. Red bill with dark tip |
 Closer look at the White-cheeked Tern. Note dark grey back and wings, dark cap and white cheek. |  Yellow-legged Gull (Mittelmeermöwe), white head, yellow legs, strong, yellow bill with clear red spot. Clear red ring around the eye. |
 Black-headed Gull (Lachmöwe), in flight, the white leading edge to the wing is a good mark. dark-brown head red bill and legs. |  Slender-billed Gull (Dünnschnabelmöwe), white head, dark-red (almost black) bill and legs. Note the light pink throat and breast. |
 European Goldfinch (Stieglitz), unmistakeable red face. Rest of the head black and white. Black wings with broad yellow bar. |  European Serin (Girlitz), upper parts are dark-streaked. Yellow throat and breast, yellow bar above the eye and around the ear. |
 Sardinian Warbler (Samtkopfgrasmücke), black head, white throat, grey back and red eye. |  Wheatear (Steinschmätzer), female is pale brown above and buff below with darker brown wings. |
 Kestrel (Turmfalke), |  European Eagle Owl (Uhu), big orange eyes, distinctive ear tufts |
 baby Eagle-Owl |  |
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