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ekopa

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• May 12, 2016

• #1

Hi!

Please help me identify these eagles from Oman, Dhofar region, photographed in Decemeber at Raysut sewage treatment plant
1-2 Steppe Eagle?
3 Steppe Eagle?
4 Steppe Eagle?
5 ?

 

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ekopa

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• May 12, 2016

• #2

6-7 Steppe Eagle?
8 Which tren?

 

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tconzemi

Tom

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• May 12, 2016

• #3

all eagles are Steppe
unfortunately Middle East terns do not read books and show up with greyish rumps and tails and still are Common but wait for tern experts to get an ID

 

lou salomon

the birdonist

• May 12, 2016

• #4

i think it's a whiskered tern in a strange moult stage.

 

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andyb39

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• May 13, 2016

• #5

Yes, I think based on proportions it's a marsh tern, not a Common, with Whiskered the likeliest candidate as Lou says. Not too bad a match for this bird.

https://www.smugmug.com/gallery/n-bwTkK/i-2w4QTZt

The wings and rump are too dark for White-winged, I think, and WWT has a different head pattern even in moult.

https://www.smugmug.com/gallery/n-jN5Cn/i-2NNxLHm

Commons here are often dark-billed but not grey-billed, AFAIK, and I think even the most difficult Commons still have a white rump and tail.

https://www.smugmug.com/gallery/n-7TvQk/i-P8TMsSc

 

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ekopa

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• May 13, 2016

• #6

Tom, Lou, Andy - Thank you!
Indeed, most of the terns at the water bodies more into the land were Whiskered Terns