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Extremadura May 2017 (1 Viewer)

Tony Knight

Tony Knight

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Hi

Can you help confirm/identify the attached please ?

1 ?
2 Savi's warbler site - could this be one ?
3 Short toed eagle ?
4 Booted eagle ?
5 Lesser spotted woodpecker ?

thanks
Tony
 

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6 Black kite
7 Any ideas on the snake ??
 

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For the warbler, it is really blurred and those little brown jobs are tough... I'm surprised how the breast is white, but I see more a Reed Warbler here than a Savi's. Not sure though.
 
They really need to split the Black Kite into at least 2-3 species. I would never guess that the Black Kites I saw in East Africa nor the Black Kites in Southeast Asia are the same species as this bird.
 
Byronix said:
They really need to split the Black Kite into at least 2-3 species. I would never guess that the Black Kites I saw in East Africa nor the Black Kites in Southeast Asia are the same species as this bird.
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Yellow-billed Kite in Africa is separated from Black Kite since long (Milvus aegyptius). In Asia, Milvus (migrans) linaetus is sometimes split also, but not always. I'm not sure why.
 
Byronix said:
, Yes, sorry, I should clarify, I mean in Clements.
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Since James Clements passed away, his list is no longer interesting in my opinion. I use IOC and HBW Alive.

I see Black-eared Kite WAS another species according to several authorities before, including Clements!

https://avibase.bsc-eoc.org/species.jsp?lang=EN&avibaseid=A691B378&sec=summary&ssver=1

I guess they found out that they hybridize too much or they are too close genetically then lumped them.

Honestly, while I agree with you for Yellow-billed Kite and happy it is split, when I see groups of migrans and linaetus in winter (they can be abundant like in India), I've sometimes trouble to identify them.
 
I think your snake is a young Malpolon monspessulanus (Montpellier snake) The top of the head is already taking the typical shape of the species (and the pigmentation pattern of head scales is wrong for both Natrix). I can't see well the head scales to give more precise ID clues. In a Quercus pyrenaica forest...;-)

Byronix said:
I think the snake is Natrix natrix (Grass Snake)
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fdokykcu said:
I think your snake is a young Malpolon monspessulanus (Montpellier snake) The top of the head is already taking the typical shape of the species (and the pigmentation pattern of head scales is wrong for both Natrix). I can't see well the head scales to give more precise ID clues. In a Quercus pyrenaica forest...;-)
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:t: You're propably right for that snake.
 
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Tony Knight said:
Many thanks for all your help guys.

Is 1 definitely booted ? I know there are dark and light versions but the photo linked here in my Extremadura flickr album I had assumed was booted and the frilly bits at the end of the wings seem much longer than in photo 1 ?
https://www.flickr.com/photos/54189378@N02/35084918740/in/album-72157682318178072/

thanks
Tony
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Definitely booted, and it is difficult to compare birds is such different position with different angles of view.
 
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