Grey Hypocolius?? S Iran (1 Viewer)

[gholamhosseini]

Hi,
Would you please help me in ID of right bird (from S Iran, 2022)?
My guess is Grey Hypocolius.
Thanks

 

[Butty]

A finch.

 

[Richard Prior]

Do you mean the bird on the left Gholam? If so, it looks more like a Shrike than a Hypocolius to me.

 

[Bewick]

Its a shrike, think its great grey

 

[foresttwitcher]

The OP said the bird on the right so not the Shrike - or the other bird immediately to it's right.

 

[Richard Prior]

The OP said the bird on the right so not the Shrike - or the other bird immediately to it's right.

As the shrike is a grey colour and the OP wondered about Grey Hypocolius it seemed logical to ask whether he meant right or left!

 

[gholamhosseini]

There are 3 birds in the picture. I know the bird that is grey (on the left of the picture) is Great Grey Shrike.
The middle bird is house sparrow.
My question is about the bird that is on the right of the picture with black primeries.
Best

 

[wheatearlp]

A Desert Finch-type thing?

 

[gholamhosseini]

A Desert Finch-type thing?

yes, similar to finch, Thanks

 

[Butty]

No problem.

 

[Richard Prior]

This one could run and run as they say-Gholam, what made you think of Grey Hypocolius, did you see it in flight, hear it call etc etc? Such field observations are often more useful than a single ‘frozen in time’ photo! As Butty said further up thread, it looks finch like but do I detect a long tail?

 

[gholamhosseini]

This one could run and run as they say-Gholam, what made you think of Grey Hypocolius, did you see it in flight, hear it call etc etc? Such field observations are often more useful than a single ‘frozen in time’ photo! As Butty said further up thread, it looks finch like but do I detect a long tail?

Thanks, you are right. Field observations are often more useful for identification. Unfortunately, because I took this photo several months ago, I don't remember if it had a long tail or not. As I didn't see any trace of pink color on the wing in the photo, I doubted about grey hypocolius.

This one could run and run as they say-Gholam, what made you think of Grey Hypocolius, did you see it in flight, hear it call etc etc? Such field observations are often more useful than a single ‘frozen in time’ photo! As Butty said further up thread, it looks finch like but do I detect a long tail?

 

[chowchilla]

Could the bird on the right be an Indian Silverbill?

 

[Richard Prior]

Could the bird on the right be an Indian Silverbill?

Ooh that looks a very good call, is S.Iran in its range do you know?

 

[Andrew Whitehouse]

Ooh that looks a very good call, is S.Iran in its range do you know?

Yes, it is.

 

[Butty]

I could now pretend that I count estrildids to be 'a finch' - which I don't 😉

 

[chowchilla]

Years of seeing Waxbill-type finches in Aus made me immediately think of that family, seeing this bird.

 

[MJB]

Yes, it is.

Just to add some detail to Andrew's post, its established Iran distribution is from Bandar-e Lengeh eastwards for some 775km in a coastal strip about 75km wide, up to the Pakistan border. IUCN considers it a local and nationally-traded species and so there may be small escaped populations beyond that area.
MJB

 

[gholamhosseini]

Thanks to all