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    Common or Barrow's Goldeneye? California, USA.

    Always useful to see labels - thanks - but it doesn't actually help me as I already knew that that's what you meant. Having read all your comments (again) carefully, I fear I can't actually see where you say which features of the median and lesser coverts shown by this bird distinguish...
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    Common or Barrow's Goldeneye? California, USA.

    I can't comment on your ID source without knowing what it says (and probably not even then). I don't find that the median or lesser coverts of the problem bird are 'clearly visible' in any of these photos - including the first photo (which shows a partly-open wing, certainly not a 'spread...
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    Common or Barrow's Goldeneye? California, USA.

    Thanks for new photo and your opinion on the ID. It's always most helpful and saves time to have all photos, and your own view, at the outset. Bill length and shape still appears to identify it as common goldeneye. In the new photo, the head is turned slightly towards us and thus appears rather...
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    Common or Barrow's Goldeneye? California, USA.

    Evidently that's how common goldeneye (of whatever age this is, possibly 1st-winter) is.
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    Common or Barrow's Goldeneye? California, USA.

    Immature Barrow's goldeneye is also said to have no yellow on the bill.
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    Common or Barrow's Goldeneye? California, USA.

    Common goldeneye - big long bill.
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