[ammadoux]

Hello everyone

have for you three from the shore and one from the desert

1- a kind of Cormorant, but which kind i am guessing the Socotra's.

2- my guess is a little tern, Sterna albifrons.

3- the eternal conflict, lesser or greater plover.

4- have no idea.

thanks in advance for your halp

[Tib78]

1-not sure
2-Gull billed Tern
3-Kentish Plover
4-Tawny Pipit

[Florin Chirila]

I would go for Shag at no 1

[lou salomon]

i'm irritated by the small yellow patch on bill base of lower mandible in the cormorant - otherwise looking like a socotra (but i haven't seen the sp.)

agree on 2 and 3 with tibault (gull-billed and kentish)

4 - no experience with the species either but it looks long billed and long tailed to me. long super. blurry median covert centres. is this a long-billed pipit?

[Parker]

Not sure about the first pic & agree with others on 2 & 3 and agree with Lou for last pic Long Billed Pipit. P.

[ammadoux]

thanks all, it is so late now for me but i will post two more shots of 1 tomorrow it may help.

[ammadoux]

Hello again

here are two more shots of the Cormorant.

[lou salomon]

looks more like a great cormorant

[ammadoux]

thanks Lou.