Who would have thought i would be asking an ornithology question on the fediverse one day🦩👀
Yet, here it comes!
I saw a super curious bird that I have not been able to identify at all. It happened twice within the last two weeks in Germany and the Netherlands.
It was a medium-sized bird that both times was hunting (?) on agricultural fields, going down very fast in a spiral and then quickly going up again. It has a very unique high-pitch call, before seeing the bird I thought it was an alarm!
It is black from above, but on the bottom side the wings are black and the belly is white. The wings also have a shape that is very easy to spot from afar, they’re wider at the end (see below for a pixeled illustration).
If anyone has encountered them before or has any idea I would love to hear any leads :D
@doubtingtammy @ceci I would have said something similar to a falcon too! I see them hunting in the fields around my house in my hometown (in the countryside). We call them “falchetti” :)