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    Swifts from Lanzarote, 16 sep

    OK so summing up: The first two birds I had labelled as Plain, everyone agrees are indeed Plain. Common 1 looks good for Common. Pallid 1 is the source of the most contention. For what it's worth, I upload all my photos to inaturalist, and I had a couple of Spanish birders ID it as Plain as...
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    Swifts from Lanzarote, 16 sep

    Wait, I had this wrong! As per Collins, Pallid is supposed to have an even whiter throat than Common! And looking at a bunch of photos from Madeira, quite a few Plain have fairly marked scalloping, so I wonder if what I called Pallid1 might not actually be Plain?
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    Swifts from Lanzarote, 16 sep

    Thanks for the responses, gents! As for the timing of migration, looking at ebird bar charts (with the caveat of possible misidentifications, of course), there are reports of both Common and Pallid until the end of september for Lanzarote, and looking at data for the Canaries as a whole to...
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    Swifts from Lanzarote, 16 sep

    Hi everybody, I just came back from the Canaries and I was hoping to gain some expert insight on these bloody swifts. I saw these on the golf course of Costa Teguise, a famous birding spot on Lanzarote. Two of these birds seemed quite slender, fairly pale, with long pointed wings and forked...
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