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Thursday 5th May 2005, 19:47
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Nightingale or thrush N.
Hello all ...
i need to know this bird ... the pix were taken in septemper 2004 in Kuwait. thanks alot :)
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Thursday 5th May 2005, 20:43
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TN's sing thru the night on passage in the gardens of Eilat on their northbound passage. Sorry I can't go into more detail re plumage but to me it's a TN. John Last edited by john barclay : Thursday 5th May 2005 at 20:46. |
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Thursday 5th May 2005, 21:18
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the overall grey tones, slight malar stripe, spotting/dappling on breast, lack of any obvious supercilium, dusky ear coverts, hint of undertail barring in one pic hard to tell but primaries in one pic look evenly spaced too Tim
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Thursday 5th May 2005, 21:27
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Thrush was my first reaction, but I'd need time to be 100% sure it wasn't an eastern Nightingale
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Thursday 5th May 2005, 22:07
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I agree it looks like a TN for all the reasons others have said.
It also looks to me like the greater coverts are longer than the first primary. Hard to say for sure from low-res versions of the pics because the alula confuses things, but a close look at the originals blown up might confirm. If that's the case, you have definite TN. Nightingale has the first primary slightly longer than the greater coverts (easier to see than the shorter TN first primary). |
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Thursday 5th May 2005, 22:37
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