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    Warbler? Lauwersmeer, Netherlands

    I did make it easier for myself by downloading the recording and using Audacity to amplify the volume and filter out the low frequency background noise on the recording - basically everything below 500Hz was removed using the high-pass filter filter function. I use Audacity a lot with my own...
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    Warbler? Lauwersmeer, Netherlands

    White Wagtail, possibly with a Robin singing part way through the recording as well.
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    Yesterday near Eindhoven Netherlands - female Black Redstart?

    Agreed. On passage I have seen Black Redstarts in places miles away from buildings in habitats you wouldn't normally associate with them in the breeding season - I always check dung heaps for Black Redstarts on migration periods as well as more typical areas. Similarly Common Redstarts are also...
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    Yesterday near Eindhoven Netherlands - female Black Redstart?

    Definitely a Black Redstart.
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    Common Sandpiper - Actitis hypoleucos ??

    1, 4 & 5 are Common Sandpiper, 2 is Wood Sandpiper and 3 are Sanderling.
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    Kannur Warbler January 2025

    BRW can show the emarginations but they are not always visible by any means as Grahame has said. I can't see any either on the photo in this instance either.
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    Sharp-tailed Sandpiper? Bangkok yesterday morning

    For the circled bird I would look at Great Knot as some of them can have quite a droop to the bill at the tip and colour and size wouldn't be at odds with the surrounding birds.
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    Phylloscopus collybita or Phylloscopus collybita tristis (FRANCE, Lyon)

    As stated above neither of the birds look like tristis and are within variation of collybita. Abietinus is not safely identifiable in western Europe as the differences between collybita and abietinus are averages taken across their populations and individual variability is such that the overlap...
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    Grebe id, Israel

    Agree Black-necked Grebe. Also it lacks the pale tip to the bill shown by Slavonian.
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    Pipit ID? Bandar abbas IRAN. Recently

    Of the two Olive-backed Pipit makes most sense. It looks a bit scruffy but the supercilium looks good and the black loral-stripe doesn't fit Red-throated Pipit. Obviously with only this photo we are limited in what we can see and if it were a cleaner bird it would be easier to be 100%.
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    Chiffchaff? Hams Wall 12/12 - plus camera question

    True, I was concentrating more on the focusing - although obviously using EV offset will also help with the backlit birds but possibly more than one EV in those cases.
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    Chiffchaff? Hams Wall 12/12 - plus camera question

    True, I have a Panasonic Lumix FZ300 aka FZ330 but same thing and have used it for years. I use spot-focusing for static birds in vegetation. However spot-focusing takes longer than the fast-focus central-area focusing option available on the FZ300 so it is not as helpful with mobile birds in...
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    Bird ID Question; Rio Rincon Bridge Costa Rica February 2023

    Why not (Hudsonian) Whimbrel?
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    plover species in Cyprus

    Looks like a greyish European Golden Plover to me. The primaries don't seem to project beyond the tail at all and the primary projection beyond the tertials is less than the obvious European Golden Plover bottom left of the picture. Also it only seems to show three primary tips and only two of...
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    Strongly streaking pipit

    It is worth bearing in mind that any pipit missing its longest tertials will show a primary projection so checking if it has all three tertials on each wing is a good start. Also a primary projection of 1 or 2 mm can appear due to posture. Attached is a picture of gustavi showing the prominent...
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