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    Parrot by description only, Grenada, so an escape

    Suspect lots of possibilities. E.g. white-fronted Amazon has red/blue as you describe. It has red in the tail (both surfaces) but I don't know how visible this would be. Ditto yellow-lored parrot. Red-lored parrot has red and blue in the wing, etc etc (Forshaw's parrots of the world is good...
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    Puerto Rican Flycatcher or Gray Kingbird? Old San Juan, Puerto Rico

    Yes all grey kingbirds and a tailless Grackle. Puerto Rican flycatcher is a Myiarchus which look very different to Kingbirds
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    3 days birding around Nairobi

    A classic route is the road leading from Nairobi to magadi lake. I would spend one day on that, one in Nairobi np and the remainder in... (Wherever)
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    Bird - Brussels city centre

    I don't see a certain white patch here, more likely a lighting effect causing a highlight. The stance of 1 is a little odd, but I don't think you can exclude sparrowhawk as a possibility
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    White-tipped Dove?

    White-winged dove
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    Forster's vs. Common Tern? SE Michigan, USA

    Supported by bill shape
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    Possibly Eurasian Collared Dove? 4/25/2024. Morehead, North Carolina

    It is if we believe ebird. There are several records for North Carolina: https://ebird.org/species/afcdov1?siteLanguage=en_GB Don't know about African Collared Dove, but Eurasian has spread / is spreading rapidly in the New World so I wouldn't rule either out.
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    Possibly Eurasian Collared Dove? 4/25/2024. Morehead, North Carolina

    It's likely but we can't rule out African collared dove from these images. Ebird suggests the latter may not be in Morehead itself, but it's certainly in North Carolina
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    Hello. Skagit Valley, WA - Gyrfalcon maybe

    Looks more like northern harrier to me.
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    Brown Thornbill? Blue Mts, Australia

    looks like
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    Guatemala - grackle?

    Presumably unicoloured jay [although you don't say where in Guatemala]
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    My tablet dilemma

    Develop huge muscles and spend vast amounts on clothing to deal with the inevitable tears which develop when hulking (e.g.) Birds of Peru around... More seriously, the point is you can carry very many guides around on the same electronic device. So in Cuba I had guides to the birds (of Cuba but...
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    Chile - El Yeso Valley or Farallones ?

    El yeso was better for us. We found no sandpiper plovers (not at the hot hot pools), and crag chillia was surprisingly difficult. However, creamy-rumped miner was common on the pay road to the thermal pools. Apparently, heavy snow fall last year covered the sandpiper plovers' usual area and...
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    Dragonfly that lights up

    Not glowing on and off, rather inflating and deflating as the insect pumps air into it. By "glowing" I think what you're seeing is change in expanse of the colour: the colour itself isn't changing (at least to my eye)
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    Shorebird ID help - Bolivar Peninsula, TX

    Unless that really is yellow I can see on the legs (in which case least sand) in the low light where I write this
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    SW Florida USA - bay waders (long shots)

    Willet, Stilt sand, 2 * whimbrel
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    South Australia

    Yes: Australian reed warbler, sharp-tailed sandpiper, red-necked stint
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    Picture in gallery, Cuban Crow or Cuban Palm Crow

    Placement of the eye circle in the second image is incorrect. It's much closer to the bill, i.e. needs to move 45 deg down towards bottom left. This makes it more marginal under the new criterion. On balance I decided just about ok, but certainly not as clear as e.g. Ebird images
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    Picture in gallery, Cuban Crow or Cuban Palm Crow

    I originally raised this. I think it's Cuban for 2 reasons: apparent size/length of bill (long) Only a small, short fringe of nasal hairs along the culmen. (Comments in the gallery suggest that Cuban is never found on the ground (as here). I think that's unlikely.)
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    Flight shot - Fife

    Note the thick white bars on the upper wings
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    Forest-falcon, Minca, Colombia

    Yes I think they're somewhat "impressionistic" renditions. Suspect other sources are better. They do at least show a wide collar for collared
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    Please help ID these 2 birds

    Surely 2's bill/gape structure is gannet too
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    Javan Tiger may still survive

    (They might disagree)
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    NW Greece - early July

    97b has a reddy-orange breast with whitish underparts. Surely not a nightingale..?
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    The ultimate range maps

    Yes but at least you know what the accuracy is. I think they deliberately hide some locations in this way (e.g. when I was looking for Canarian endemics locations)
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