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    Spotted Flycatcher (Muscicapa striata)

    Dear all, nice to see some interest in the subject! As Andrea stated we are preparing an ID paper for Dutch Birding with plates from Lorenzo Starnini. Regarding the english name issue: Balearic Flycatcher would be a very misleading name, especially so because balearica and tyrrhenica can be...
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    spain raptor id

    A good difference is also the head: more little and "pigeon-like" in subbuteo/vespertinus and bigger (with stronger neck too) in peregrinus.
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    spain raptor id

    AArrgghhh...very bad mistake!! New photos show that it's clearly a Hobby...I misunderstood very badly the shape in firts three pics! I attached a photo showing an adult calidus Peregrine. Note how wings can look narrower and tail longer in this race than peregrinus/brookei. ciao Michele
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    spain raptor id

    As sure, in the second picture it is not parallel to the photographer, so it's not strange that wings look so narrow. But in 1st and 3rd pic I see a silhouette showing too broad-based tail and wings good for a peregrine (yuv of evry race, ad only northern birds). As more, in my experience Hobby...
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    spain raptor id

    Really not a Hobby/Eleonara's...i have seen hudreds of them and they look much slimmer, with narrower wings and longer tail. It is a peregrine, maybe a northern bird (Calidus group) wich have longer and narrower wings. They are regular in passage and in winter here in Italy, so I guess it's not...
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    More Egyptian birds

    1st is again a Buzzard sp. Look at pale undertail coverts, pale face and so on...wich species is nearly impossible from this pic only. ciao Michele
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    Egyptian falcons and Raptors

    3rd pic is not a kite...i'd rather go with the vulpinus common buzzard because from my personal experience on cirtensis long-legged this taxon shows a stronger bill, paler upperwing coverts and very thick legs and toes. Additionally primaries seem to reach tail tip, not seen in long-legged...
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    Straits of Gibraltar 13, 14 & 15 September

    For the buteo: it has recently been proved from the raptor expert Andrea Corso that cirtensis bird sometimes have an identical tail pattern to vulpinus. The bird in your pics shows extensive pale fringes to upperwing coverts, bad expression and strong and powerful legs and toes...all pointing to...
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    Crete gull

    It is not an audouin's gull, too big bill, leg pink and not grey as in audouin's ecc It is a yellow-legged gull. ciao Michele
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    Falcon, Middle East

    Can yuo post some pics were we can see some more details? I don't really get a rufinus feeling and also the coverts tips are dark for long legged... but you all sound so sure! Michele PS this bird clearly is not an adult! pale eye, uniform coverts with no moult sign.
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    Falcon, Middle East

    In my opinion it is a Steppe...little bill, not aquila-like expression, it is a juvenile and a long-legged should show a much lighter eye! Michele
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    Is this a Buzzard?

    Shouldn't adults Eastern imperial eagle show very dark brown body and underwing-coverts?! And the tail shouldn't show a large dark terminal band and other thinner bands towards the base? Looking longer and with more care to the first pic I fand tail and fingers a little too long for lesser...
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    Is this a Buzzard?

    Bird 2 a yuv/ imm Lesser spotted eagle. Bird 3: I would say it is a ad/late imm Lesser or more probably Greater spotted eagle...very short tail, broad wings, little contrasted underwing bird 1: it shows a quite long tail but I have seen sometimes a tail like that in spotted eagles...I think...
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    A challenging raptor ID?

    I think there are no really consistent doubts that the bird is from the honey buzzard complex...Short-toed eagle is much different, bigger head, squared tail, longer wings and so on. From the pic we can use I find really hard for me to understand the age and sex: of course it isn't a ad male...
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    Wader ID cornwall Please

    Yes it is, in the first picwith a Curlew ciao Michele
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