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    Ringed plover (Thinornis dubius vs Charadrius hiaticula) - Central Spain

    Conversely the IOC appears to have sunk Thinornis into Charadrius as of update 14.1, Jan 2024. Taxonomic Updates – IOC World Bird List
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    Ringed plover (Thinornis dubius vs Charadrius hiaticula) - Central Spain

    Apropos this thread, when was Little Ringed Plover moved to Thinornis and which bodies recognise the change? The BOU still seems to list it as Charadrius dubius.
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    Tringa ochropus?

    I couldn't play the video on my device, but fortunately the thumbnail is all we need to identify a Green Sandpiper :) Another ID point - the tail of a Common Sandpiper usually protrudes noticeably beyond the wingtips; on your bird the wings and tail are about the same length.
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    Vale of Glamorgan, South Wales, UK

    No mystery, it still sounds like a Chiffchaff. Pale and unmarked below, darker above, dark eyeline (emphasised by pale supercilium), dark legs, hopping about in a tree in March giving a repetetive two-note call - everything fits. There are a lot of them about at the moment as they are one of...
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    Vale of Glamorgan, South Wales, UK

    Sounds like a Chiffchaff.
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    Request help id warbler species Bulgaria, 2019 (September)

    The wingbars of Phylloscopus warblers are formed by pale tips to the greater and sometimes median coverts and show as narrow pale lines against a darker background - pretty much the reverse of what we see in this picture.
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    UK - ID Help , possible Snow goose

    Did you not mean Greylag Goose in both cases here, Alexander?
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    Phylloscopus collybita or Phylloscopus collybita tristis (FRANCE, Lyon)

    How are we supposed to identify tristis in the field, if this could be one? Given the amount of yellow, as well as the bare part colours (dark but not jet black) it seems to break the rules. What stops it from just being collybitta?
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    Unidentified raptor (owl?) - Hampshire UK

    What features of an owl did you notice?
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    Film / Birdsong. Sweden > Nedre Daläven (Autumn)

    In England late autumn and winter woods can be almost silent until you encounter a flock of tits, possibly with Goldcrest, Treecreeper or Nuthatch tagging along. Then you hear a medley of high pitched calls, not very loud, except for Nuthatch which has some distinctive ringing calls, until the...
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    Marsh or willow tit, Regensburg, Germany

    It also appears to have a tick on the bill, which might conceal the pale spot, and some missing feathers on the lores. Did it call? It's well worth listening to these birds as some of their calls are quite distinctive.
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    Passerine, Austrian Alps 3 days ago

    I don't see black feathers, just shadows caused by disordered plumage on a ?wet Dunnock.
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    Strumpshaw Fen, Norfolk

    It could just be the angle, but that bill looks too short and deep for Great White.
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    Query from Hampshire, England

    Another difference is that the red tail of a Redstart is already visible in the juvenile as here.
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    3 x Peregrine Falcons in Warwick

    Peregrines nested again in nearby Leamington Spa this year: BBC article
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