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  1. Brian J Small

    Brabant Netherlands - Tree Pipit or ....?

    He was
  2. Brian J Small

    Yellow-breasted Bunting?

    I suspect these are actually House Sparrows. Nothing visible in the photo contradicts this and if you lighten it as much as you can one or two males show the head pattern
  3. Brian J Small

    Atlas Wheatear - Oenanthe seebohmi ?

    Contra to my post 6, I believe that there is enough here to say it is Finsch's - whch is certainly more likely, too. The slightly stocky structure - including large bill - and plumage is within the range of Finsch's. Brian
  4. Brian J Small

    Sandplover - Cyprus

    Bill still too small for colombinus imo - see ML615829297 - Greater Sand-Plover - Macaulay Library I agree with Grahame Brian
  5. Brian J Small

    is this a Richard'd Pipit of Tree? taken in Maagan Michael,Israel 19.4.21

    Tree
  6. Brian J Small

    Atlas Wheatear - Oenanthe seebohmi ?

    like this? ML615090822 - Finsch's Wheatear - Macaulay Library perhaps a good call, but it does look male apart from pale lores
  7. Brian J Small

    Tanzanian shrike at Sereena Lodge Ngorangora in November

    Northern Fiscal
  8. Brian J Small

    Atlas Wheatear - Oenanthe seebohmi ?

    On first looks it certainly looks good for Atlas Wheatear, but as others have written it does look quite dark grey above compared with the pale, powdery blue-grey of adult males - could this be down to exposure? The black side of the neck crossing from black throat and wings (reminiscent of...
  9. Brian J Small

    Possible Hanuman Plover. Yala, Sri Lanka. Nov 23

    Mine from there over a number of Nov visits are like yours - maybe a little better - and look like seebohmi too. Brian
  10. Brian J Small

    Possible Hanuman Plover. Yala, Sri Lanka. Nov 23

    Hi Stuart In light of Peter Kennerley's images on eBird - Kentish Plover (Hanuman) - Anarhynchus alexandrinus seebohmi - Media Search - Macaulay Library and eBird - and as he knows a thing or two about these birds, I would probably ID yours as seebohmi... Brian
  11. Brian J Small

    Whitethroat? Warbler? Oman Feb 2024

    I would agree, Menetries's Warbler
  12. Brian J Small

    Unidentified warbler

    A simple ID as Chiffchaff based on length of p1, which is long - much longer than primary coverts. WW has a short p1 - equal to length of Primary coverts.
  13. Brian J Small

    African Grey Flycatcher?

    African Grey - ML615927105 - African Gray Flycatcher - Macaulay Library - with broad and ill-defined super, sandy grey colour Ashy - ML615082395 - Ashy Flycatcher - Macaulay Library - lead grey, with white supra-loral srtipe and eye crescents Don't be taken in by the mess of images on eBird...
  14. Brian J Small

    African Grey Flycatcher?

    Ashy Flycatcher
  15. Brian J Small

    Sykes`s Warbler ?

    Muratfaik You write like you have read a lot about Sykes's, but not very experienced in seeing them. Graham has correctly identified this and I can't see anything that makes me think rama. In addition to Graham's assessment, the tail is proportionally way too short. Look at this image from...
  16. Brian J Small

    Finsch's vs Variable Wheatear - Uzbekistan?

    IMHO this is a Finsch's Wheatear. Female Variable can be pale, but is still duskier than this about the head, notably on the throat extending on to breast - whereas here the throat is as pale as the rest of the underparts. There is often a fairly obvious pale winge bar on great coverts...
  17. Brian J Small

    Kenya, Nairobi National Park, Lark or Pipit?

    Butty Your comment is interesting as there are very few photos of juvenile Rufous-naped Lark. The images here, though scalloped, are fine for very fresh adult. One issue is the variability of individual feather pattern on Mirafra larks, but actually there is a juvenile image on BF (bird on...
  18. Brian J Small

    Reed Bunting ssp - Turkey

    E. s. reiseri Hartert, EJO, 1904 se Albania, nw Greece, Macedonia and w, c Turkey E. s. caspia Ménétriés, 1832 e Turkey, the Caucasus and n Iran
  19. Brian J Small

    Namibian Sparrow ID help

    Try this one - Field Guide to Birds of Greater Southern Africa
  20. Brian J Small

    Woodhouse? California? Hybrid Scrub-jay Nevada USA

    This may help - You are being redirected...
  21. Brian J Small

    Latest IOC Diary Updates

    I am working on a paper for British Birds and wondered, given that both Dutch and Swedish taxonomic committees have 'split' Buff-bellied Pipit' into American Pipit Anthus rubescens and Siberian Pipit Anthus japonicus, if IOC have any upcoming proposals that are likely to affect their treatment...
  22. Brian J Small

    Iran / Warblers

    In response, I am unsure you gain an accurate view of the primary projection in these photos. The outer rectrix is well short of tail tip, which though variable is more likely in Sykes's and the pattern of a broad and diffuse pale tip and inner edge is typical of Sykes's. The extension of P1...
  23. Brian J Small

    Iran / Warblers

    Lou. Why not a Sykes's Warbler?
  24. Brian J Small

    A weaver? Photographed on 27/1/24 on Fajara Golf Course, Serekunda, The Gambia

    Age-related - imm/juv https://macaulaylibrary.org/asset/554526331
  25. Brian J Small

    Meadow Pipit or Skylark (UK)

    Neither location nor date is needed to identify this as a Meadow Pipit
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