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  1. wheatearlp

    Unknown thrush, South Korea

    Possibly. Thought I could detect a gape line in the first pic? Only looking on phone though & my eyes are less than perfect 😂 Perhaps a bit early in the year for a fledged immature though?
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    Unknown thrush, South Korea

    Immature Siberian?
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    What juvenile gull is this please?

    Yes, BHG. Just not a juvenile.
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    F & M Black-headed Gulls?

    I would agree with your thoughts on this.
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    What juvenile gull is this please?

    1st summer bird - note brown wing-coverts & tertials in this photo. BHG moults out of pure juvenile plumage in the autumn of the year they were hatched, i.e. around November.
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    Padua, Italy - Bird of Prey

    It's a Kestrel (Falcon tinnunculus)
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    Upton Warren

    Ah, I see. Symptomatic of the length of time I've been going to Upton Warren Reserve that "Upton Warren", to me, just means the reserve!
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    Upton Warren

    Not sure what you mean by "the wetlands", but there has been a regularly calling cuckoo on the reserve since early May. Seen & heard at both Flashes & Moors Pools, so perhaps more than one? Cuckoo is a species that had declined markedly over the last 8-10 years, so to have one (or more)...
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    Robin, how to see if its a male or female?

    You and everybody else!
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    Upton Warren

    For those taking part in tomorrow's All-Dayer & who want to keep a manual list rather than on BirdTrack, etc., see attached. You could, I think, also save as an excel sheet and use it that way instead.
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    Roseate Tern ? West London, United Kingdom

    There are two or three ringing schemes using yellow darvics in Britain and at least one in Ireland. There are also such schemes in a few other European countries. All put the darvic ring on the left tarsus or, in the case of Poland, don't specify which leg.
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    Whiskered vs Common Tern - Differences?

    I think the bird in the photo is just showing signs of a faint carpal bar that occurs in some Whiskered Terns in non-breeding plumage. Overall, the bird just doesn't look like a Common Tern, carpal bar or not.
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    Whiskered vs Common Tern - Differences?

    In the above link, the three birds on the right of the montage aren't the same as the two on the left. Those on the right look, to me, more like Black Terns - I think I can see a suggestion of the dark 'shoulder-peg' in front of the wing on the top image.
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    Whiskered vs Common Tern - Differences?

    Plumage features differ too, otherwise you wouldn't find images of Whiskered Tern that, to your eye, look like Common Terns. You can't take one or two features and expect them to be 100% consistent across one species and also maintain 109% difference when compared to another species. It is a...
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    Upton Warren

    Another new darvic-ringed BHG was seen at the Flashes early evening on 19th April. It was ringed in the nest at Welney WWT on 18th June 2024, this is the first sighting since then.
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