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  1. Frenchy

    Warbler Eastern Saudi Arabia

    I know the feeling! On arriving for a two month stay at Eilat IBRCE, i told Reuven Yosef that one of the things i wanted to do was check out racial variations. He laughed, and said that all western birders came to Israel expecting to be able to put a subspecific name to everything - Lesser...
  2. Frenchy

    Warbler Eastern Saudi Arabia

    Hi Howard, for those of us not on mbnet, is it possible to post those comments on here as well, or provide a link? It would be really useful to have everything in one place. I see that Killian Mullarney has suggested Eastern Olivaceous as the best fit. The only comment from Killian i've read is...
  3. Frenchy

    Warbler Eastern Saudi Arabia

    This is getting good! After checking, looks like i was wrong on the number of primaries beyond the tertials on Booted. They can have seven. Moral: always check more than one picture! However, i had a feeling that Booted Warbler can show almost a small notch to the tail, whereas the mystery...
  4. Frenchy

    Warbler Eastern Saudi Arabia

    But your UAE birder fails to say why this bird clearly lacks the long undertail coverts of an acro. This is a much better feature to look at on a bird thats partially in shadow and in strange light. I'd be happy to say that this could be an Eastern Olivaceous (i've been struggling to find pics...
  5. Frenchy

    Warbler Eastern Saudi Arabia

    The undertail coverts appear to be too short to be an acrocephalus warbler, and i ca't recall ever seeing a Marsh wagging its tail around. I also think the pale fringes to the secondaries and tertials go dome way to ruling out Olivaceous, although it would be nice to see the tertials and the...
  6. Frenchy

    Warbler Eastern Saudi Arabia

    Hi I think its an Upchers Warbler. Its clearly a hippolais warbler for several reasons, including head and bill shape and a lack of a supercillium beyond the eye. The wagging tail is a good field character of Upchers, and the apparent size and shape look good for that species as well. The...
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