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Recent content by Grahame Walbridge

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    Pha Taem NP Thailand - Blue Rock Thrush again, Bulbul, Flycatcher...?

    The Muscicapa is an Asian Brown, face/head pattern + structural elements confirm. Gerben, Grey-streaked is a very rare bird in SE Asia with a mere handful of records from Vietnam and a couple of very recent records from the Thai-Malay peninsula; a bird wintered in southernmost Thailand (Dec...
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    Identification- India. Help!

    Black-chinned Babbler. Grahame
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    Pha Taem NP Thailand - 2 x Flycatcher, Purple Sunbird...?

    1-2 Asian Brown Flycatcher 3-4 Yes, Grey-headed Canary Flycatcher 5-6 Male Ornate (aka Olive-backed) Sunbird, the orange pectoral tufts are invariably hidden and often not even mentioned in literature see ML122974801 - Ornate Sunbird - Macaulay Library Grahame
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    Which short toed lark? W of Tehran. Iran

    Clearly one of 'LSTL' complex Andy, bill colour/structure, streaking on breast sides a/l, short tertials + long pp with 3 well-spaced tips confirm. Turkestan is the only species in range. Grahame
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    Which short toed lark? W of Tehran. Iran

    Turkestan Short-toed Lark Grahame
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    Unusual 'Yellow' Wagtail, Matzu Islands, Taiwan, April 2024

    Except that, according to Alstrom & Mild (2003), leucocephala appears to be isolated from any western taxa. It has though been found breeding within the range of macronyx in northern Mongolia and there may be limited contact with tschutschensis in northwest Mongolia. Further, this would not...
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    White or Pied Wagtail (UK)

    1st-w fem alba, age confirmed by obvious moult-limit in greater coverts, 2 innermost (GC 9 & 10) replaced fresh adult type with broad grey tips contrasting with worn juvenile feathers with narrow white tips. Useful reference...
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    Pipit ID. Shirza, Iran

    Mike, ornithologically, the SE Asian region is generally considered to include Myanmar, Thailand, Laos, Vietnam, Cambodia and Peninsular (Mainland) Malaysia, as covered by Birds of South-East Asia (Robson 2015). Water Pipit does not appear in the latest version (Second Edition) and, AFAIK, there...
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    Mongolia -- Ortolan vs Grey-necked Bunting

    Agreed, 1,2, 3 & 5 Ortolans, the young birds (3 & 5) have heavily streaked upperparts and noticeable tertial step etc, contra Grey-necked. Agree 4 is Grey-necked for reasons cited, very similar to this individual ML610231025 - Gray-necked Bunting - Macaulay Library Grahame
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    Chat / Redstart ID please. Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu, India

    Jaysan, your bird is a female Pied Stonechat of indeterminable age; one would need to identify moult limits + look at specific feather tracts to quantify wear to enable precise ageing. One can readily age juveniles as they resemble adult of respective sex e.g males have blacker wings and tail...
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    Warblers - Samarkand, Uzbekistan

    As James commented earlier it is a Lesser Whitethroat, bill way too slight and not long enough, underparts not clean/white enough and, crucially, lacks grey centers to undertail coverts of EOW. Grahame
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    Pipit ID. Shirza, Iran

    Water Pipit does not winter/occur anywhere in SE Asia. Grahame
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    Wheatear from Oman

    Come guys, its patently a female Desert Wheatear, median coverts are black and the tail base has white webs to R5 and R6 which are clearly visible, hardly features of Blackstart! Grahame
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    Pipit ID. Shirza, Iran

    Hi Dorna, it's surely not a Siberian Buff-bellied, the underpart streaking too pale and poorly defined, wrong face/head pattern including, in particular, well marked supercilium, dark eyestripe terminating with dark spot in front of eye + malar line very weak/absent, upperparts too well marked...
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    Distant owl in flight in Tajikistan today...Short-eared?

    Its a Short-eared Phil readily confirmed by dark tips to the outer primaries. Grahame
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