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  1. lou salomon

    Is this Sardinian warbler or Menteries’s warbler please?

    all your photos show male Menetrie's Warblers.
  2. lou salomon

    Algarve Lark

    Always better with their bills closed in these ;). And it doesn't look that long-billed anymore, lower mandible looks straight, so might be a theklae in the end.
  3. lou salomon

    Algarve Lark

    looks good for Crested Lark indeed.
  4. lou salomon

    Massachusetts - Rare Broad-winged Hawk??

    Note that Broad-winged Hawk has a different wing shape, especially wing tip with 4 rather than 5 fingers and doesn't show the typical black leding edge to arm of Red-tailed.
  5. lou salomon

    Is this Sardinian warbler or Menteries’s warbler please?

    yes, I just noticed that and corrected the text in my post.
  6. lou salomon

    Is this Sardinian warbler or Menteries’s warbler please?

    I guess this pic is from Iraq. It is a Menetrie's Warbler with no or very little pink wash to underparts, maybe a 2cy male. Male Sardinian has a black cap and darker grey underparts, and it doesn't occure in Iraq. Please alawys mention location and date when posting to this forum, it's one of...
  7. lou salomon

    Which short toed lark? W of Tehran. Iran

    like Graham already explained, Alaudula species have a longer primary projection and different bill structure and colour than Calandrellas.
  8. lou salomon

    Brunei queries

    ..and a Greenshank in pic ...254. In that (last) pic there are 2 Wood Sandpipers, 5 Marsh Sandpipers and one Greenshank.
  9. lou salomon

    ID help on Gulls in Dhofar in Oman, February 2024

    Hello, all your birds look good for Heuglin's Gulls. Mantle tone in first pic is hard to assess, it's a 3cy and could be both heuglini or barabensis but it just feels beetter for heuglini, looks dark enough.
  10. lou salomon

    Odd Wheatear on Paphos last week?

    actually Jane is right, I guess. I didn't look properly earlier. It's too grey on mantle, wing flash, peachy wash to cheeks, pp is ok for Finsch's.
  11. lou salomon

    Odd Wheatear on Paphos last week?

    Closed tails in most wheatears appear completely black, a common pitfall. Just have a look at pics with males, you can see black tails both from above and below.
  12. lou salomon

    Odd Wheatear on Paphos last week?

    probably Pied over Cyprus on long primary projection.
  13. lou salomon

    Peregrine falcons sex and age? UK 21/04

    barred flanks and streaked breast - you wanted to say, Tom.
  14. lou salomon

    Which Warbler (UK)

    it's a Chiffchaff.
  15. lou salomon

    Wader ID. Gothenburg, SW Sweden. April 15.

    looks like a Common Sandpiper to me. The other contender is Green Sand but stance, somewhat divided breast field, shortish legs and apparent white breast sides make it look much more like Common Sand.
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