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    Spotted Flycatcher (Muscicapa striata)

    Dear all, nice to see some interest in the subject! As Andrea stated we are preparing an ID paper for Dutch Birding with plates from Lorenzo Starnini. Regarding the english name issue: Balearic Flycatcher would be a very misleading name, especially so because balearica and tyrrhenica can be...
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    spain raptor id

    A good difference is also the head: more little and "pigeon-like" in subbuteo/vespertinus and bigger (with stronger neck too) in peregrinus.
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    spain raptor id

    AArrgghhh...very bad mistake!! New photos show that it's clearly a Hobby...I misunderstood very badly the shape in firts three pics! I attached a photo showing an adult calidus Peregrine. Note how wings can look narrower and tail longer in this race than peregrinus/brookei. ciao Michele
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    spain raptor id

    As sure, in the second picture it is not parallel to the photographer, so it's not strange that wings look so narrow. But in 1st and 3rd pic I see a silhouette showing too broad-based tail and wings good for a peregrine (yuv of evry race, ad only northern birds). As more, in my experience Hobby...
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    spain raptor id

    Really not a Hobby/Eleonara's...i have seen hudreds of them and they look much slimmer, with narrower wings and longer tail. It is a peregrine, maybe a northern bird (Calidus group) wich have longer and narrower wings. They are regular in passage and in winter here in Italy, so I guess it's not...
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    More Egyptian birds

    1st is again a Buzzard sp. Look at pale undertail coverts, pale face and so on...wich species is nearly impossible from this pic only. ciao Michele
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    Egyptian falcons and Raptors

    3rd pic is not a kite...i'd rather go with the vulpinus common buzzard because from my personal experience on cirtensis long-legged this taxon shows a stronger bill, paler upperwing coverts and very thick legs and toes. Additionally primaries seem to reach tail tip, not seen in long-legged...
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    Straits of Gibraltar 13, 14 & 15 September

    For the buteo: it has recently been proved from the raptor expert Andrea Corso that cirtensis bird sometimes have an identical tail pattern to vulpinus. The bird in your pics shows extensive pale fringes to upperwing coverts, bad expression and strong and powerful legs and toes...all pointing to...
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    Crete gull

    It is not an audouin's gull, too big bill, leg pink and not grey as in audouin's ecc It is a yellow-legged gull. ciao Michele
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    Falcon, Middle East

    Can yuo post some pics were we can see some more details? I don't really get a rufinus feeling and also the coverts tips are dark for long legged... but you all sound so sure! Michele PS this bird clearly is not an adult! pale eye, uniform coverts with no moult sign.
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    Falcon, Middle East

    In my opinion it is a Steppe...little bill, not aquila-like expression, it is a juvenile and a long-legged should show a much lighter eye! Michele
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    Is this a Buzzard?

    Shouldn't adults Eastern imperial eagle show very dark brown body and underwing-coverts?! And the tail shouldn't show a large dark terminal band and other thinner bands towards the base? Looking longer and with more care to the first pic I fand tail and fingers a little too long for lesser...
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    Is this a Buzzard?

    Bird 2 a yuv/ imm Lesser spotted eagle. Bird 3: I would say it is a ad/late imm Lesser or more probably Greater spotted eagle...very short tail, broad wings, little contrasted underwing bird 1: it shows a quite long tail but I have seen sometimes a tail like that in spotted eagles...I think...
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    A challenging raptor ID?

    I think there are no really consistent doubts that the bird is from the honey buzzard complex...Short-toed eagle is much different, bigger head, squared tail, longer wings and so on. From the pic we can use I find really hard for me to understand the age and sex: of course it isn't a ad male...
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    Wader ID cornwall Please

    Yes it is, in the first picwith a Curlew ciao Michele
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    A challenging raptor ID?

    I agree with Jan...this bird is clealry an Oriental honey buzzard! Look at the image I tried to post (I hope it works!). ciao Michele
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    Id help,Gallikos

    The gull is a Black-headed gull and it is an adult! Others are Ruffs ciao Michele
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    Buzzard subspecies

    I don't think this bird is a Long legged buzzard due to: slim hand, very well pronunced U on the breast, compact appereance and general jizz. This buzzard is clearly a fresh yuv, so it is normal at this age don't show any broad barring on the tail...they are still thin and many. Plumage...
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    Large Gull - Ethiopia

    Thank you very much for your comments Jan, very interesting! Here in Italy heuglini occours yearly with low numbers in Sicily, but those birds are very pale (taymirensis-like!) and big...wath a mess these gulls ;- ) ciao Michele
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    Large Gull - Ethiopia

    I'm very interested in gull ID and often I try to ID photos like this one. I find this bird very good for fuscus/heuglini complex for reasons of moult and location already explained by others, but if I should decide between the two I'd rather say heuglini. My experience is limitated to fuscus...
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    ID please

    I think that from these pics is very hard...but there is another feature pointing to aquatic that has not been told yet: the large, very pale edges to the visible coverts in pic 1...Sedge should show, even in a fresh yuvenile plumage, less well marked and darker margins. So, I'd say aquatic...
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    Raptor id help please

    I agree with booted for flying bird, perched I am not sure about. ciao Michele
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    raptors, Poland

    Bird one is of course a Common buzzard. But the second bird shows long wings and tail (honey buzzard-like silhouette), smallish head and quite long neck, pale upperparts lesser and median coverts, pale line bording upperparts greater coverts, pale-based tail, extensive pale flash on the hand...
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    Chough & Falcon - Italy

    In Abruzzo at high altitudines is very difficult to find Lesser kestrel, if not during migration periods. I'm quite sure your falcon is a kestrel. And the choughs...those I can see well look all good for pyrrhocorax, but is not impossible that some graculus were present... ciao Michele
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    Herring or Caspian

    It's not an easy bird at all! It gives in effect a cachinnans "feel" to me, but many characters are not ok: the bill is strong, P10 pattern, head shape. Others characters are ok: mantle color, legs seem thin and pale grey/pink, long wings, little eye. My guess is that it is one of those eastern...
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