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Recent content by fricka

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    What could this bird be? - Portland, OR USA

    1st winter Heermann’s Gull?
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    Gambia Frog

    African Common Toad, I think, Sclerophrys regularis.
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    Lizards, Gobi

    One of the racerunners, Eremias sp, probably Gobi Racerunner, Eremias przewalskii.
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    Id bunting?

    Or a hybrid involving Eastern Cinereous Bunting?
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    Id bunting?

    Black Headed X Red Headed hybrid? They are known to hybridise in eastern Iran, with males having intermediate characters.
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    Comment by 'fricka' in media 'Common Wall Lizard in Italy'

    It is actually a Common Wall Lizard, Podarcis muralis. Common or Viviparous Lizard, Zootoca vivipara, only occurs at high altitude in NW Italy.
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    [Italy] What lizard?

    The other Podarcis possibility would be Italian WL, which would be at the north-western edge of its range in Turin, but I don't see any trace of the green on the back that would probably have.
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    [Italy] What lizard?

    Common Wall Lizard for me, with hind legs that long and keeled scales on the back.
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    Lizard in Morocco

    Desert Agama, Trapelus mutabilis?
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    Newt sp. Lancashire

    This might help... http://www.herpetofauna.co.uk/forum/hybrid-palmate-smooth_topic4263.html
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    Venezuelan Tortoise

    It is Red-footed. There are only three native species of terrestrial chelonians in mainland South America, and one of them, Chaco Tortoise, only occurs in Paraguay and Argentina, as the name suggests. The ranges of the other two, Yellow-footed and Red-footed, do overlap in the north. Don't...
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    Red-wattled Lapwing?

    That's a thick-knee, Eurasian I think.
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    ID by song - Romania

    Sounds like Thrush Nightingale to me - definitely not Common Nightingale.
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    Gull ID's Southern California

    Both are Heermann's Gull.
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    Humming Bird - Cuba

    Yes, Cuban Emerald
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