Greetings! A friend of mine is in need of assistance identifying two birds captured in blurry photos. Your help in this matter is greatly appreciated in advance!
This bird could potentially be an owl as highlighted in your outline, quite convincing illustration. However, if you squint again, your left 'eye' could be a bill slightly raised in and then it absolutely doesn't look like an owlI'll use a screenshot of the first photo to illustrate my point if I'm allowed to. Apologies for my drawing skills (this picture only needs a smile to make it complete). From what I understand, there are no more general information about the habitat?
Thanks for your suggestions! I'll try to get more info, it's not my observation.I'll use a screenshot of the first photo to illustrate my point if I'm allowed to. Apologies for my drawing skills (this picture only needs a smile to make it complete). From what I understand, there are no more general information about the habitat?
Still looks like a passerineThe original picture after some Lightroom editing (the face is still obscured as mentioned above, but the rest looks better):
And given that Merlin gives best matches as either an owl, a crane, a hawk or a hummingbird, I think we can safely say it has no idea 😀Still looks like a passerine
Also, let me know if I can post the pictures after some editing in Lightroom because I didn't ask about it earlier.Thanks for your suggestions! I'll try to get more info, it's not my observation.
Yes, sure. No problem.Also, let me know if I can post the pictures after some editing in Lightroom because I didn't ask about it earlier
It depends on the age and subspecies, apparently (here, a juvenile from Pennsylvania):I see the reason for thinking Barn Owl, however the problem is that Barn Owl's face is always lighter, not darker, than the rest of the head.
That's my point: it doesn't and couldn't - or not in the face of alternative views from experts in field-birding and interpreting photos (in whose ranks I am not - though I do think it's not a barn owl). (NB None of this is to say that it's definitely not a barn owl!)more of an exercise in (unsuccessfully) trying to shore up my point
I don't see anything that I would think of calling a facial disc. I don't find it has either the posture or the structure of an owl: it seems to have a moderate-length tail and to be leaning forward; owls don't have/do either - well, hawk owls - ish - but the head shape's wrong. It's perfectly plausibly a passerine. I fear you're trying way too hard - and that Tom C had it right at the outset, viz. there just isn't enough here to get anywhere.roughly heart-shaped facial disc