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  1. Joern Lehmhus

    Irish hybrid duck

    https://www.irishbirding.com/birds/web/Display/sighting/169322/Baikal_Teal.html I seriously doubt the proposed identifications , I think this is Northern shoveler x Eurasian teal
  2. Joern Lehmhus

    what the... photos from the web of not-Baer´s pochards- location unknown

    https://nepaldesk.com/bird/baers-pochard any ideas what this is supposed to be?
  3. Joern Lehmhus

    Error in gallery

    https://www.birdforum.net/gallery/gallus-sonneratii-sonnerats-junglefowl.493373/ Domestic chicken instead of Gallus sonnerati...
  4. Joern Lehmhus

    Steppe x Western Marsh Harrier

    https://www.dutchbirding.nl/gallery/detail/29021#r1983388 Interesting!
  5. Joern Lehmhus

    Not a hybrid but stained!?!

    https://waarnemingen.be/media/photo/75037982.jpg This was on Waarnemingen.be, photographed in Belgium 14. august 2023.. I think this is staining, not a first generation hybrid. BUT...I cannot be 100% sure...If backcrosses of a hybrid Common x Ruddy are possible to Common Shelduck , could...
  6. Joern Lehmhus

    Raptor, Black Forest, Southern Germany 21.09.2023

    What do you think?
  7. Joern Lehmhus

    pure Philippine duck or not? Brandenburg, Germany (escape)

    https://cdnmedia3.biolovision.net/www.ornitho.de/2021-02/27875-17131629-4851.jpg not my photo... Schwielowsee, federal state Brandenburg, Germany, 17 February 2021- so surely an escape - but there are a few things at odds with Anas luzonica-or not?
  8. Joern Lehmhus

    Hartlaubs gull or birds with greyheadded gull genes ?

    https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/7a/Chroicocephalus_hartlaubii_-Cape_Town%2C_South_Africa-8.jpg/800px-Chroicocephalus_hartlaubii_-Cape_Town%2C_South_Africa-8.jpg https://www.laine-dirk.co.za/photos/316/Hartaub's%20Gull%20-%20MB.JPG Also non breeding plumage bird with...
  9. Joern Lehmhus

    Gull from panorama photo at hospital

    There is a large panorama photo in the hospital where I undergo some medical treatment at the moment ... I do not know from where in the world that photo is- but i have the suspicion it is Australia /New Zealand there is a lawn at the seaside with European grasses, (mainly Lolium perenne)...
  10. Joern Lehmhus

    2 Wheatears from Mongolia this summer, photographed by a friend

    She was traveling in Mongolia, but I do not know exact locations: first bird (3 photos) here
  11. Joern Lehmhus

    Possible backcrosses (Australian shelduck x Common shelduck) x Common shelduck, UK

    At Wold Newton, EAST YORKSHIRE, an Australian x Common shelduck hybrid seems to have bred with a male Common Shelduck (photos thanks to Brett Richards) At July 10; the young looked like this (on first photo of this series , hybrid mother is in the background): Now there are two questions...
  12. Joern Lehmhus

    Schönberg, Schleswig-Holstein, Germany, American black scoter , 4.April 2023 (Drawing)

    Seen at a beach called "Kalifornien" ( a part of Schönberg, Germany) ; in a group with Common scoters (also drawn for comparison) I think there is no way this is an aberrant Common scoter due to different bill profile , but it is the first time i saw the American species in life.... As an...
  13. Joern Lehmhus

    Feral Amazon Parrots, Valencia, Spain, July 2019

    At least 3 , possibly more birds involved....Which species?
  14. Joern Lehmhus

    Vulture sp., June 2014, Braunschweig, Lower Saxony, Germany (Drawing)

    Griffon vulture or what do you think?
  15. Joern Lehmhus

    Chloephaga sp. in Germany (escape) but which species ?

    https://www.ornitho.de/index.php?m_id=54&mid=936146 https://www.ornitho.de/index.php?m_id=54&backlink=skip&mid=936145 Hi all, the bird linked above was seen in Germany in recent days and first identified as a possible female Upland or Magellan goose Chloephaga picta. It is clearly not that...
  16. Joern Lehmhus

    Large gull, Braunschweig, Germany, 3 April 2022

    Stood out by very slightly darker grey on mantle from all other large gulls at the site (Herrig, Caspian, and undefined birds). Which species?
  17. Joern Lehmhus

    2 immature large gulls, Braunschweig, Germany, 8 January 2022

    what species ? The one on the right was ringed (metal rink above joint on right leg, Yellow ring with black letters /numbers below joint on left leg -but due to the distance I wasn´t able to read the rings)
  18. Joern Lehmhus

    Gull-Long time ago_ February 2012, Texel , Netherlands

    I had considered this adult bird to be a Caspian gull at that time - but given experiences in Germany in recent years and also several threads at BF here , I wonder if that was correct and if a hybrid could savely be excluded ... I didnt get any photos as the bird always seemed to avoid getting...
  19. Joern Lehmhus

    Unusual duck from the Netherlands, Heiloo, 2021-03-06 - Northern shoveler x Falcated teal ?!

    https://waarneming.nl/fotonew/8/33782208.jpg found this in the web, I can only interpret it as a hybrid Northern shoveler x Falcated teal ... anybody disagree?
  20. Joern Lehmhus

    Literature needed for hybrid ID

    Hi all, I am sorry to bother you with this, but don´t know anyone who has a copy: for hybrid ID I need Tipling, D. 1989. Gadwall × Chiloe Wigeon hybrid resembling American Wigeon. Birding world 2: 10 It would be great if anybody could send me a pdf?
  21. Joern Lehmhus

    Predated egg found- which species

    Predated eggshell (likely either predated by black crow or by northern raven) on the road at my working place in Braunschweig, Germany, May 2021 5.6 cm long (should be about 2,2 inches), and about 3.8cm wide. I am thinking Eurasian Oystercatcher?
  22. Joern Lehmhus

    vague bird description Shaanxi China September 2019

    Seen from a driving car in south of province Shaanxi on the way from Xian to Hanzhong, in wooded mountaineous terrain sitting on a an electricity cable crossing a river valley. I only got a glimpse of a bird of woodpigeon size or a bit larger, shape and colours as in the drawing, head was turned...
  23. Joern Lehmhus

    Redstart, Famen Temple, Shaanxi, China, November 2018

    which redstart?
  24. Joern Lehmhus

    Gull from last weekend , Braunschweig, Germany

    Sorry for the photo quality . Bird had pale yellow legs .
  25. Joern Lehmhus

    peregrines with reddish nape patches

    https://www.agw-sh.de/%C3%BCber-wanderfalkenschutz/hybridfalken/ sorry, Link is in German and photos are small all birds observed in the wild. except for the flying bird all have been photographed in Germany , the flying bird is a still from the movie "wild London" what do you think these are?
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