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Recent content by RafaelMatias

  1. RafaelMatias

    Israel - Jezreel Valley, end of May, Bird of Prey

    I was going to ask the same from you. I've left this forum for months at least twice before due to unnecessary and personal, inappropriate really, comments you have made towards me. As I've been reading on the last days, with some surprise, I'm not the only one feeling like that. I hope you're...
  2. RafaelMatias

    Israel - Jezreel Valley, end of May, Bird of Prey

    It's all a matter of perception and trained eye perhaps. FWIW I wrote those sentences exactly expecting this particular comment from you, and I'm not disappointed!
  3. RafaelMatias

    Israel - Jezreel Valley, end of May, Bird of Prey

    Was it a hot day @Indobirder? Just to add some arguments pro STSE, and some that rule out Harriers: angle not optimal, but tail is shorter than wingtips despite the blurriness, there is visible patterning on the uppertail, indicating dark transverse bars, one obvious medial, one apparent...
  4. RafaelMatias

    Israel - Jezreel Valley, end of May, Bird of Prey

    Sorry, no, as @kuzeycem says above, the large head (almost owl like at times) is one of the features of STSE.
  5. RafaelMatias

    Israel - Jezreel Valley, end of May, Bird of Prey

    Here's a Short-toed Snake Eagle with not too dissimilar plumage: Short-toed Snake Eagle (Circaetus gallicus). Birds of Ukraine.
  6. RafaelMatias

    Israel - Jezreel Valley, end of May, Bird of Prey

    Cross posted with you. Agree with your remarks.
  7. RafaelMatias

    Israel - Jezreel Valley, end of May, Bird of Prey

    Black-winged Kite has very different structure (and colour pattern!). This is an elongated bird with long tarsi. BWK has short tarsi for example. It's a weird one, but structure is perhaps not bad for Marsh Harrier (an aberrantly coloured individual, or partially the result of light and photo...
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    Malaga, Spain. June 2023

    Booted Eagle
  9. RafaelMatias

    Work out the bird

    Let's try Pintail...
  10. RafaelMatias

    Greater or lesser yellowlegs

    It's a Lesser Yellowlegs. Key feature is bill length (also shape), measured from tip to insertion on frons/forehead, compared to head length, measured from frons to back of head/nape. Lesser has bill approximately as long as head (or only slightly longer), while Greater has a longer bill (also...
  11. RafaelMatias

    Bird of prey? Bath, England

    Pied Wagtail is also my impression.
  12. RafaelMatias

    Ecuador Thistletail?

    Please see image "17" in full size. Cheers
  13. RafaelMatias

    Red bird in Massachusetts.

    It might have to do with the 'white balance'; the greens also seem to have too much red in them, if this makes sense.
  14. RafaelMatias

    Warblers, France- Charente, 05/06/2023

    I'll try to sum up a few important features then (but I'll not engage in lengthy discussions on ID, sorry): bill extensively orange/yellow basally (this is very unlike WBW, lower mandible pinkish) face pattern differing from WBW in broken eye-ring anteriorly (WBW has complete, thin, white...
  15. RafaelMatias

    Warblers, France- Charente, 05/06/2023

    It's a scruffy juvenile Chiffchaff (this plumage is quickly moulted out) imo. Western Bonelli's is actually one of the species I most frequently see in 'summer' here, and this one isn't one. I'll leave that for you to find out.
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