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    Hello. Skagit Valley, WA - Gyrfalcon maybe

    Yes, a "grey ghost" male Northern Harrier, with its long tail in a convenient hole in the ground! If you squint you can just about see the harrier facial disk.
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    Ueno Park Japan Heron Identification Help

    Black-crowned Night Heron and Grey Heron
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    Yet another bridge camera thread...

    Thanks, that's a good point about image resolution! On the Panasonic site though they say the FZ330 only has 12.1 Megapixels, as opposed to 16.1 for the LZ30... https://www.panasonic.com/uk/consumer/cameras-camcorders/lumix-digital-cameras/bridge-cameras/dmc-fz330.html I'm looking at the Sony...
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    Skylark or pipit? Dartmoor, UK

    Linnet
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    Couple of ID's - Rainham Marshes RSPB 12/04/2024

    2 looks much too bulky-bodied for any swallow/martin for me. Not sure what it actually is (the tail looks weird for anything!) but Skylark seems as good a possibility as any.
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    Yet another bridge camera thread...

    Hi all, I'm thinking of getting a new bridge camera, as the Panasonic DMC-LZ30 (specs here: Specs - DMC-LZ30 LUMIX Bridge Cameras - Panasonic ) that I've had for 9 years is getting a bit battered and having problems like the zoom frequently sticking. I'm not very technical and would like a...
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    Mallorca 2024

    Thanks! Just looked on Google Maps again and I see a road not far away called "Carrer Mar i Estany".
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    Mallorca 2024

    I'm reading this with interest as I'm going to be in Mallorca at the end of May! It won't completely be a "birding holiday" as only 2/5 of us are really into it, but as we'll be in Alcudia it looks like Albufera and Albufereta will be easily doable. One question - where is Maristany? From the...
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    Unidentified duck.

    Plumage and structure look quite similar, though bill colour different, to this Mallard x Shelduck hybrid recently photographed in Norfolk:
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    Balearica

    I don't normally venture into this forum but... as I may be going to Mallorca this year, I was looking up wildlife and places of interest there, and then suddenly wondered - why are the crowned cranes called Balearica??? Both species are exclusively found in sub-Saharan Africa, there seems to...
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    Kinabatangan, Borneo - little egrets or medium egrets?

    I'm seeing black, needle-like bills on the birds to left and right, contrasting with the thicker-based yellow bill of the middle bird. So I think the outer birds are Little Egret (or something in that "complex", not sure what species/subspecies would be expected in Borneo). Despite the long...
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    Cormorant, Greater Manchester UK

    I saw this cormorant that stood out from others yesterday at a fishing club site in Stockport (unfortunately a fenced-off site where you can only get glimpses through trees of the actual water and birds on it, so branches in the foreground made clear photos difficult). Then I happened to see...
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    Male And Female Gadwall? Connecticut USA

    Yes :) Note white speculum on the female, probably the most definitive feature to distinguish it from female Mallard (apart from it being with a male Gadwall...)
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    Common Pochards, London UK

    Yes, 1-4 are all the same bird - the only non-Tufted Aythya present.
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    Common Pochards, London UK

    I did think about (escaped rather than vagrant!) Canvasback for the first bird too, but didn't want to suggest it in the first post! And discounted it anyway because they have a really extreme bill/face shape and this one was closer to Tufted Duck than Mallard in size. Re the second, here is...
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    Which thrush? London UK

    It wasn't singing, and I hadn't thought of Redwing, but that definitely makes more sense than Song Thrush! I tend to think Mistle looking "longer"/slimmer and Song more compact is a better way to tell the two apart than any of the usual claims about colour/markings. But probably was misjudging...
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    Which thrush? London UK

    Alexandra Palace Park, 10th Feb 2024. I thought this was a Mistle Thrush when I photographed it (due largely to the slender/elongated structure), but looking at the pics (only got these 2 before it flew) I'm now less sure...
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    Common Pochards, London UK

    Both of these I'm pretty sure are Common Pochards, but they're a bit unusual-looking one way or another! Bird 1 (first 4 photos) was on the boating lake at Alexandra Palace Park, 10th Feb - apparently the only Pochard there, and coming to bread alongside Mallards, Tufted Ducks and Egyptian...
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    Eurasian sparrowhawk? Fukuoka, Japan

    Certainly looks like a sparrowhawk in the general sense of the word, i.e. a small Accipiter hawk. However I believe there are a couple of other sparrowhawk species to consider in Japan as well as the Eurasian sparrowhawk, and I don't know how easy it is to distinguish between them, or if any of...
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    Odd duck, Filey Dams, Yorkshire UK

    If so, that's a lifer and an almost mythical bird for me! Never thought I'd see one on a little freshwater reserve like that, even near the coast! Looking through Opus, there's a bewildering array of plumages, but this one certainly seems close: Long Tailed Duck I didn't get an impression of...
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    Odd duck, Filey Dams, Yorkshire UK

    This was on 21st January. Filey Dams is a small freshwater local reserve about a mile inland from the Yorkshire coast - the kind of place that typically has waders and dabbling ducks. On this occasion there were none of the former (probably because water levels were very high and there was ice...
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    Western Sahara / Flycatcher

    Looks like it's got something wrong with its feet (at least the left one) - maybe that explains the un-flycatcher-like posture, which could have caused doubt in observers of the photo (perhaps considering things like pipits, cisticolas, etc)?
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    Hybrid baikal teal ? at Top Hill Low , Yorkshire last weekend.

    Wigeon x Shoveler looks quite similar: Eurasian Wigeon x Northern Shoveler
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    Buzzard sp - Horton's Plain, Sri Lanka Nov 2023

    I'm wondering if this bird was seen in the UK/western Europe, would it be seen as anything other than a dark Common Buzzard? Or would the uniformly dark underparts be striking enough for people to suspect something outside the ordinary?
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    Black bird with white head? - Devon, UK

    Yes, it took a second or two to work out what was what in the first photo, but then unambiguously a male Blackbird with a white "cap" on the front/top of its head. The orangey-yellow bill is what makes it definite! Abnormal white feathers seem pretty common in Blackbirds - and most common on...
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