Help with Moroccan bird ID? (1 Viewer)

[Storm21]

I went to Morocco some weeks ago and took a picture of a small bird (its difficult to see, but I only had a disposable and the bird was up on a wall ledge...)

http://i10.photobucket.com/albums/a125/Ksgoddess/FH000018_edited.jpg

And I think it looks like a House Bunting... (second pic from bottom of page)

http://www.naturspesialisten.no/article.php?id=46&p=

What do you guys think?

 

[Hotspur]

Yup House Bunting for me.

 

[lou salomon]

you've got some great pics in that album, storm21! congrats on the dowitcher. especially i liked the barbary falcon with caught ringed plover. house bunting is.

 

[markgrubb]

you've got some great pics in that album, storm21! congrats on the dowitcher. especially i liked the barbary falcon with caught ringed plover. house bunting is.

Lovely pics-I am no no expert but isn't your pic of a yellow browed warbler actually a Pallas's warbler-yellow crown stripe etc, dark line through eye and broad bright yellow supercilium

 

[Woodchatshrike]

Lovely pics-I am no no expert but isn't your pic of a yellow browed warbler actually a Pallas's warbler-yellow crown stripe etc, dark line through eye and broad bright yellow supercilium

I agree.

 

[Steve Waite]

I agree.

It's a YBW, it is a very well marked one though, had to look twice at it. Some superb pics on there, Morroco is a fantastic place to go birding, highly recommended.

 

[JANJ]

Not so easy in certain images, where perhaps contrast is strong, making certain parts, the head, looking darker than they are. It has a rather strong crown stripe, especially in fore crown, on Yellow-browed usually more obvious in back of the crown. The narrow dark loral area like Yellow.browed, ending behind the eye with a broader "hook" like Palla´s, fits many Yellow-browed. Supercilium looks whitish-buff, more orange-yellow, especially in front of the eye in Palla´s. Shape of supercilium is rather variable in the two. There´s of course no hint of the yellowish rump of Palla´s, it´s pefectly hidden by the tertials, but by blowing the image up to about 300 % or more, isn´t there a small crack between the lower tertials, and when peeping in there, I don´t see any yellow.

Some very nice Palla´s and Yellow-browed to compare with:

http://www.praktejder.se/images/2005/0510/KFSMN-051013.htm

http://www.tarsiger.com/images/kesma/Phypro111003b.jpg

http://www.tarsiger.com/images/kesma/Phypro111003a.jpg

Yellow-browed:

http://www.tarsiger.com/images/komi/phy_ino_pk_001.jpg

http://www.tarsiger.com/images/SL/phyino_lakka_040904_3.jpg

Check the crown stripe in the third set of images here:

http://www.tarsiger.com/index.php?p...der=lajiluettelo.nro,paiva+DESC&find=find&r=1

One doe´s tend to lean at Palla´s on the subject bird.

JanJ

 

[Storm21]

oops, sorry! *blushing* I neglected to mention that that album isnt mine. I found it while surfing the net for pics of what the bird in my pic could possibly be...

And sorry if you got the page that said my pic had been deleted, I was trying to edit it so you could see the bird better, I must have gotten distracted and not put it back up