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    Poland, Gull (today)

    Tail looks very short and wing pattern is not good either for immature Black-headed, Bonaparte's (similar head pattern and slim black bill) or Little Gull (small rounded head and thin black bill). Do you think a 1°winter hybrid Black-headed x Little Gull could be realistic, with such mixed wing...
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    Comment by 'igorfest' in media 'Grey backed thrush.'

    It's a female Black-breasted Thrush. Grey-sided T. never shows orange on the flanks. Ciao. Igor
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    Feather id

    It's a Woodcock feather, I regularly find many of them under the San Gaudenzio's Dome in Novara, Italy, where i work. They belong to migrant woodcocks (mainly in November) preyed by the local breeding pair of Peregrine Falcon living on the dome. Thanks and greetings Ciao Igor Festari
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    Unknown bird, SW Spain

    I've recently been for an holyday in Portugal and i've seen Egyptian Goose pretty everywhere, from south of Lisbon north to Oporto, within towns and villages, in marshes and along rivers, even flying over the highway while i was driving... It's a common feral species in most of the Iberian...
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    Warblers from Seline, Croatia

    1° bird is a typical (structurally) but rather faded female Eastern Orphean Warbler, and the 2° bird looks a freshly plumaged juvenile (almost plain head and yellow gape) of the same species, but I sincerely can't explain that uniformly white underside of the tail. It looks almost albino in...
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    Help ID this bird from Nuestra Tierra Reserve wildlife camera in Ecuador Andean Choco Cloudforest

    It's a Forest Falcon of some species (the head in profile shows the classic short and blunt bill shape of a raptor and it sports long yellow legs and long graduated tail with apical black and wihte spots typical of the genus), but i don't know which one... It's incredible to see it running like...
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    How lucky is a Pipit? Iran

    Water Pipit of the Caucasian subspecies coutelli. Beautifull bird!
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    ID small grey/brown one

    A Booted Warbler in my opinion too... Dark tip to lower edge of mandible, long pale supercilium behind the eye, rather shortish looking tail and brown-grey legs seem to exclude Sykes's Warbler. Ciao, Igor Festari, Italy
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    Mourning Wheatear or Pied Wheatear?

    If you want to read very good and most complete bibliographical resources about bird migration and vagrancy you can have a look at these two titles: "Vagrancy in Birds" by Alexander Lees & James Gilroy "Rare Birds of North America" by Steve NG Howell, Ian Lewington & Will Russell Here you find...
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    Eurasian penduline tit?

    First one (probably Yellowhammer call, but also very similar to Redwing's to my hear) is a short, sibilant and straight ziii, while the second call (surely Penduline Tit's) is a longer, less sibilant and more bouncing (down-up-down) mourning whistle fiiUUu Ciao, Igor Festari, Italy
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    Afghan Babblers?

    I've never seen Afghan Babbler before but the two photos presented here (even if slightly veered towards blue tones) actually depict two birds very different from classic Common Babbler i've commonly seen in various parts of India and Nepal... They look almost bicolored with strongly streaked...
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    Hume's Lark?

    Dear Grahame, thanks a lot for your note. About the shape of Hume's Lark bill compared to Greater's, I've founded contrasting comments in different bibliographical sources (some say it's thinner and longer, sometimes is cited as slightly shorter, some say it has deep base and sometimes curved...
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    Hume's Lark?

    Very difficult identification, as the two species (Greater and Hume's Short-toed Lark) are very similar in every respects. But, apart from the lack of dark spots on the neck sides (usual in Hume's and regular but rare in Greater, especially rare in many birds seen together), all other...
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    Mourning Wheatear or Pied Wheatear?

    Morphologically speaking, it has a rather strong built, thick bill and the undertail coverts strongly tinged with buff, tipical features of Mourning Wheatears (and not good for Pied). Interestingly the easternmost form of Mourning W., subspecies persica (breeding from Iran to the boundary with...
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    Warbler Lesvos

    An Iduna warbler. Judging from longish bill with completely pale underside, pale feather edges on secondaries and greater coverts, medium-long primary projection (about 2/3 of tertials), proportionately shortish tail, brownish-pink legs with greyer feet and rather strong face pattern (with...
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