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  1. 23-11-2007 #1
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    This will be easy for you - but I've got no idea what these birds are so help please !
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    They look like "Bald Turkeys" to me
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    No idea what that is deedee, but it doesn't look like any bird native to the British Isles, when and where did you take the photo?
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    I was Thinking that . I think they may not be indigenous to UK . Nice captures though
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    They look like Quails of some sort.
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    I think it might be a Grey Partridge.
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    No, regardless of the body colour and shape, none of the British species (as far as I know) have the facial ornamentation.
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    Oh yes. They do have a rather turkyish look about them
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    I'll have a quick look through the Life of Birds book.
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    they are guinea fowl, and definetly not indigenous to britain. they will have escaped from someones private collection, most probably.
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    LOL, so that's what they look like in real life, unfortunately have only seen them in restaurants, in a somewhat different state, known as Pintarde in France.
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    I wondered that
    I have guinea Fowl in my encyclopedia but not with those faces.
    Oh good now we know.
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    Thanks everybody
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    Forgot to say, photographed on road from Hambleden to Frieth in Buckinghamshire
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