Quick! What was that bird?

[hairyears]

Is there a workable online resource for identifying wild birds in the UK? Not the RSPB, it's flash-dependent and the images I can load on a phone don't give flight signatures, silhouettes and outlines -it's a study resource, not a field guide

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[alextiefling]

Sounds like a red kite to me. They've been spreading eastward pretty rapidly for some years now - I've seen them just outside Oxford on occasion, so Reading seems reasonable.

[cartesiandaemon]

Wow!

At my level of knowledge, I generally ring mum, or other ornithologist friend, and ask them :)

[hairyears]

Me neither! See the update to the update: that display of knowledge comes from a thirty-minute skim through a bookshelf.

[feanelwa]

It was probably a red kite, the Reading area has loads of them. They nest near my mum's house, I counted ten in the sky once :)

[valkyriekaren]

I'm going with Red Kite. There have been a number of very successful reintroduction programmes in the last ten years. There's loads up near my parents house on the Derwent Valley near Gateshead, and we saw three circling overhead near Northampton on the way back from Whitby.

[scat0324]

There's one (or more) that regularly circles above the Cowley/Rose Hill area of Oxford - it's beautiful!