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Robin? Iran (1 Viewer)
- Thread starter ehsan
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Jon Turner
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Not with a tail like that!
Nutcracker
Stop Brexit!
Nor with that bill, either! A juvenile Linnet or Common Rosefinch, perhaps? Certainly a finch of some sort.
Grahame Walbridge
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Unquestionably an insectivore. I'd like see it deal with a seed with that bill!
Eshan, any more images?
Grahame
Nutcracker
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Really?? I'm seeing a stout seedeater's bill there - outlined in red below, upper and lower margins and cutting edge.
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Mick Harris
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Do Red-breasted Flycatchers range into Iran?
Nutcracker
Stop Brexit!
Yes; they breed in the Alborz range (northern Iran)
Grahame Walbridge
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That was what my thinking so I have been searching for images for the past couple of hours and drawn a total blank.
The bird looks like a juvenile ficedula flycatcher but I have no first-hand experience of birds in this plumage i.e moulting from juvenile to first-winter. That is why I asked Eshan for more images.
In juvenile plumage RBF has upper parts that are heavily spotted buff, like most of the family, while the underparts are heavily streaked darker. You can see some of un-moulted darker feathers (retained juvenile feathers) amongst a mixture a newly-moulted buff first-winter feathers.
Grahame
Grahame Walbridge
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Found an image at last! Second image, left-hand bird.
http://www.tarsiger.com/gallery/index.php?lista=ok&species=81780&family=&sp=search&lang=eng&manner=&sel=2&sex=0&age=0&year=&photo=&pic_method=0&pic_type=0&country=&place=&order=lisays_paiva+DESC&sel=2
Grahame
http://www.tarsiger.com/gallery/index.php?lista=ok&species=81780&family=&sp=search&lang=eng&manner=&sel=2&sex=0&age=0&year=&photo=&pic_method=0&pic_type=0&country=&place=&order=lisays_paiva+DESC&sel=2
Grahame
Andy Adcock
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What about Bluethroat?
Andy
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Simon Wates
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I think Grahame's nailed it. Those thin legs add weight to RBF
