Not sure about the first two pictures, but all the other birds show some very good features for Pin-tailed/Swinhoe's snipe and I can't imagine these birds being (pure) Common Snipes (apart from the one in the last two pictures, of course).
According to the 'Handbook of Avian Hybrids' (2006)...
The 16th of September I saw this flycatcher at Lac Yasmina, near Merzouga, West Morocco. During our one month trip across Morocco hundreds of Pied flycatchers were seen, but when we saw this bird, we immediately realized it was something else for the following reasons:
- Entirely black tail
-...
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