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Lapland Bunting? (1 Viewer)

The very demarcated, dark-zoned, red-brown tertials on right wing? Heavily streaked rump and deep body? Deeply cleft tail, and lack of obvious white trailing-edge, even in a poor flight capture? Those heavily streaked/demarcated sides also? And, as to white in the outer-tail? Here's a demonstration...

http://naturalcrooks.com/rambles/wp...aplandLongspurFlightOnNaturalCrooksDotCom.jpg

But, then, it has a Skylark feel about it too! Because it's a poor image, like we all take!... :cat:
 
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JWN Andrewes said:
Lark sp perhaps, but not Skylark; there's no white trailing edge to the wing.
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The white background and the very windswept (so much that even tertials/secondaries are momentarily parted forming a large gap) and blurred wings IMO could perceivably have made the white trailing edge impossibe to see?

But I agree that it is very difficult to give other than inspired guesses here....just think that the streaks and relatively pale groundcolour of the back and rump, and the long, triangular wings point away from Lapland Bunting.
 
Thanks to all for help! I found another picture probably of this bird. Still it could say not too much... Sorry.
 

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Here are two images of another bird, not mine, but to my mind, it has many same details of the plumage and shape.
 

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Hi Viktor,

I must say I'm struggling to see why the bird in your fist pic isn't a Lapland Bunting!? Heavily streaked flanks & rump & unmarked lower breast/belly; looks good to me but difficult to be absolutely 100%.
 
Rotherbirder said:
Hi Viktor,

I must say I'm struggling to see why the bird in your fist pic isn't a Lapland Bunting!? Heavily streaked flanks & rump & unmarked lower breast/belly; looks good to me but difficult to be absolutely 100%.
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I'd say that the quality of the streaks on the lower back and rump differ from the more diffuse and 'untidy' ones of Lapland Bunting.
Furthermore the body is too deep-chested and thus bulkier than the more evenly elongated shape of the bunting.

I guess we shall never know for sure.......
 
On reflection, I offer Corn Bunting into the mix...

A video I did a couple of years ago. Short secondaries. Moth-like primaries. Still doesn't explain the tail edges and apparent strongly marked rump. But poor captures can confuse what is really there... But I'm throwing it in! ;)

ps And I reckon the pale edge to the tail are Corn Bunting legs, catching the light. We all know they like to show them off! And in pic 1? Is that a pale stubby beak I see?

pps Don't even get me on to extremely overweight Redpoll and Twite! :-O

https://youtu.be/PPb9TefAfSY
 
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Isn't too early for Corn Bunting now?
By the way, I just intended to offer a Twite :)
I see a pale stubby beak as well but I'm not sure it is a beak :)
 
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mordovarot said:
Isn't too early for Corn Bunting now?
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Never thought of Corn Bunting as migratory! (they're 100% resident in Britain) - but checking the maps, in Ukraine they are resident in the southwest, but summer visitors in the rest of the country. With short-distance migrants like this, the boundary between summer and all year can vary a lot; in a mild or snowless winter, they may stay further north than in a year with deep snow cover hiding food sources. So I'd not be surprised if you did get a few Corn Buntings staying the winter if the weather hasn't been bad.
 
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