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  1. chris butterworth

    summer tanager or scarlet tanager

    Seconded.
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    S.Cyprus IDs?

    Not a Common Whitethroat, IMO, there's no yellow / pale base to the bill. Sardinian has a broad eyering, even as a juv., lacking on the OP's bird. althea Lesser Whitethroat?
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    Sw turkey id help please

    Agree. Probably an escape but, they are in israel. ;)
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    Plese help with the id

    Agree with Brown Shrike. The similar sub-species of Long-tailed Shrike would have the black"mask" reaching over the base of the bill in a broad band. p.s. Welcome to Birdforum Afshan.
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    Does anyone like me think twitching gives birdwatchers a bad reputation

    Hmmm. Does travelling to NZ to see Kakapo ( and putting in two weeks of free work for the privilege ) or going to specifically see Juan Fernandez Firecrown count? I twitched the UK a lot in the '70s and '80s and I didn't see it as any different than going to far away places birding, or working...
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    Scops Owl on a cruise ship near Penang, Malaysia

    ... and the lemon / pale yellow eyes rule out a possible wandering / vagrant / wintering Collared Scops.
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    Naples, Florida whale/dolphin ID

    I think ;- 1. Atlantic Bottlenosed ( I'm almost 100pc on this ) 2. ditto 3. Atlantic Bottlenosed and Spotted s.l. 4. Spotted s.l.
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    Parrot Crossbill?

    The only problem with the pale cutting edges is "Are they really pale, or is it reflection?" When the Parrots bred for the first time in the UK you could get very close views of them at their drinking puddle in Wells carpark and, even then, in good light, they weren't always obvious. On a single...
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    migrant passerine flock, san juans, COLORADO

    Horned Lark looks good on shape and some appear to have a cleanly marked black throat ( although that could easily be shadow ).
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    Parrot Crossbill?

    It does look rather 'bull necked' but the curve of the culmen appears to be better for Red / Common. Most Parrot have a more 'square' upper mandible with the culmen running straightish from the forehead before turning sharply downward to the tip. Having said that, there is a great deal of...
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    Where Have All The Birds Gone? cont'd............

    I'll admit I was a touch brusque but, when faced with simplistic "solutions" and statements ( the final sentence in the post I replied to ) that just beg to be parodied I'm afraid I'm with Oscar Wilde, "I can resist anything but temptation". p.s. This old man knows exactly where his false teeth...
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    Barnacle Goose? NE England

    It looks more like a Greylag x Canada, but hybrids can be confusing unless you get good views. There's a good selection of photos here http://www.gobirding.eu/Photos/HybridGeese.php ( the first bird is definitely weird ).
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    Where Have All The Birds Gone? cont'd............

    It still amazes me that people can come out with trite, unthoughtout comments totally lacking any scientific basis whatsoever.Sounds, particularly subsonics, can travel for many hundreds of miles through water ( thats why Whales bl**dy "sing" ) so just "avoiding" the migration routes of Whales...
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    UK Gibraltar Point Oct 18 2015

    Eur Herring Gull. The underside are possibly stained by contact with iron oxide (rust).
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    Pipit UK - prob strongly marked Meadow

    Agree with Mipit. You can just make out the rufous tone to the uppertail coverts in #3 and, IMO, the "mantle braces" aren't clear / sharp enough and the eyering is too bold for 1st W RtP.
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