Help with ID of birds from The Gambia (January 2023). (1 Viewer)

[Mike Ball]

Hi everyone. I took the following photo's in the Gambia last January and would appreciate help with identifications.

Thanks in advance.

 

[nartreb]

I think the shiny thing is a purple starling (darker eye than bronze-tailed, less black on face than the two "blue-eared" species)

Not sure how to tell great white pelican from pink-backed...

 

[CARERY]

Do you have more photos of the warbler?It's a Phylloscopus, Iberian Chiffchaff or Willow Warbler I'd say

 

[THE_FERN]

Not sure how to tell great white pelican from pink-backed...

Pink-backed. Less underwing contrast (not black and white, more dirty grey); face pattern without clear pinkish skin around eye

 

[Andy Adcock]

Do you have more photos of the warbler?It's a Phylloscopus, Iberian Chiffchaff or Willow Warbler I'd say

WW was my thought.

 

[Mike Ball]

Do you have more photos of the warbler?It's a Phylloscopus, Iberian Chiffchaff or Willow Warbler I'd say

Afraid not. Why not Common Chiffchaff?

 

[Mike Ball]

I think the shiny thing is a purple starling (darker eye than bronze-tailed, less black on face than the two "blue-eared" species)

Not sure how to tell great white pelican from pink-backed...

Yes, I see what you mean about the lack of black on the head.

 

[CARERY]

Afraid not. Why not Common Chiffchaff?

It's possible of course but at this latitude I would have thought less likely than the other two I considered earlier...