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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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    Acrocephalus (?) Warbler from Oman

    Agree Common Reed Warbler, presumably ssp. fuscus based on location. Upperparts too warm for Marsh, pale tips to primaries should be more obvious, bill structure wrong i.e too slim with pointed tip, tertials too short which typically overlap the secondaries in Marsh + wrong leg colour. In any...
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    Sandplover - Cyprus

    Tibetan Sand Plover IMO. All elements look fine including plumage, bare parts and structure + moult i.e bird still winter plumage. Super record Pete! Grahame
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    Whitethroat in Rajasthan

    Winter range of margelanica is currently unknown. Some blythi are inseparable from halimodendri as we have found out to our cost here in the UK. It was only relatively recently, through sampling, halimodendri was confirmed wintering in the Gulf States. Grahame
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    Whitethroat in Rajasthan

    Valery, according to Rasmussen, only halimodendri, minula, althaea and blythi? occur in the region while margelanica apparently migrates W through C Asia (confirmed by sampling) to ?, Crucially, AFAIK, there has been no DNA sampling to date anywhere in S Asia to enable confirmation of which...
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    Warblers in Nepal.

    1. Agree Taiga Flycatcher 2. Whistler's Warbler on account complete eyering + very weak/absent lateral crown stripe. Grahame
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    Warblers in Chitwan

    1-2 Greenish Warbler. Assume these are the same individual? That these images are challenging is an understatement so problem is safely eliminating Large-billed Leaf which can be superficially similar, especially to nominate Greenish. Looking specifically at the 1st image, the OP has an...
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    ID request from Poring Hot Spring, Sabah

    Yes, it's a flycatcher-shrike. The image is challenging but I would suggest Black-winged on account of hefty bill, apparent paler throat and dark undertail which, is the most likely at this location. Grahame
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    Isan Thailand - which Sunbird species?

    1. I'm not certain about the female due to difficulty in assessing plumage tones; the bright yellow of upper breast seems more likely a product of the harsh lighting, the lower body seems very pale/washed out, more consistent with Purple. If was with the male I think you safely assume it was...
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    Isan Thailand - this time Olive-backed Sunbird?

    1 & 2. fem Ornate (aka Olive-backed), fem Purple is overall duller. 3. male Ornate 4-5 eclipse male Brown-throated. Red eye is a good clue, the bright 'stripe' on the rear underbody (1008) is a piece of foliage. Grahame
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    Masked/Black-faced Bunting - Taipei, Taiwan; 3/25/2023

    One must also take account that the underpart tone of Black-faced ssp. spodocephala varies clinally, whitest in the west any yellowest in the east (Amur and Ussiriland) which will likely only add to the confusion. Personally, given the problems with seperation extralimitally, I don't see that...
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