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Little vs Red-necked Stint ID.
also try this - https://sora.unm.edu/sites/default/files/journals/nab/v038n05/p00853-p00876.pdf and an alternative version - https://www.scribd.com/document/392450872/V77-N07-P293-315-A085 Brian- Brian J Small
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- Forum: Bird Identification Q&A
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Spotted or common redshank? Portugal
...or Ruff?- Brian J Small
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- Forum: Bird Identification Q&A
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Latest IOC Diary Updates
I have always been interested in the fact that Madagascar Stonechat appears to have sexually dimorphic juvenile plumages - see male here ML626210559 - African Stonechat (Madagascar) - Macaulay Library African Stonechat doesn't seem to... Brian- Brian J Small
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- Forum: Bird Taxonomy and Nomenclature
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Ghana with Ashanti - November 2024
Enjoyed the report and ebird checklist. This image - ML626961593 - Tree Pipit - Macaulay Library - is incorrectly identified. It is Red-throated Pipit B- Brian J Small
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- Forum: Vacational Trip Reports
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Kannur Warbler 2024 *2
...or a Blyth's Reed Warbler- Brian J Small
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- Forum: Bird Identification Q&A
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Emarginations - questions
On your Chiffchaff photo, which is not ideal to judge, you can't see the outer two primary edges, but you can make out the emarginations which I have marked. B- Brian J Small
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- Forum: Bird Identification Q&A
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Emarginations - questions
Firstly, you need good photographs - side on - to accurately show the emarginations and their relative positions. Good photos will also show the length of p1 (short outer primary) relative to the primary coverts - and sometimes the length of p2 relative to the wing tip. It is not on all species...- Brian J Small
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- Forum: Bird Identification Q&A
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On 2nd of September 2019 at Reiffel Bird Sanctuary, Vancouver, British Colombia : Stilt Sandpiper ?
Short-billed ML625932711 - Short-billed Dowitcher - Macaulay Library Long-billed ML624409319 - Long-billed Dowitcher - Macaulay Library- Brian J Small
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- Forum: Bird Identification Q&A
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On 2nd of September 2019 at Reiffel Bird Sanctuary, Vancouver, British Colombia : Stilt Sandpiper ?
It looks like a juvenile and so on the longest tertial there appears to be an internal 'waved' line that is typical of Short-billed Dowitcher...- Brian J Small
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- Forum: Bird Identification Q&A
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Birds of Bulgaria - Subspecies level
https://www.avocetta.org/read/?box/- Brian J Small
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- Forum: Bird Taxonomy and Nomenclature
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Stonechat for confirmation - Dec 2023 - Goa, India
There is more to this than meets the eye. How many Whinchat have plain unmarked rump/uppertail coverts? It is clearly a Whinchat x Siberian Stonechat Brian- Brian J Small
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- Forum: Bird Identification Q&A
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Juvenile Gull, Lafontaine Park Montreal, Canada 3.10.2024
Nope, born this year - so 1cy Here are some (more advanced) 2cy from October - Ring-billed Gull delawarensis Brian- Brian J Small
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- Forum: Bird Identification Q&A
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A trio of warblers in Lisbon
He is saying that, but it is as you correctly suggest a Common Whitethroat. ML622691743 - Spectacled Warbler - Macaulay Library - This eBird images shows the slight rufescence to crown, broad rufous fringes to greater coverts that create a uniform 'block' of colour (rarely black centres visible...- Brian J Small
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- Forum: Bird Identification Q&A
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Birding in Peninsular Malaysia
Lee Kok Chung is one of the best local guides I ever worked with - Bird Guides Team | EndemicGuides- Brian J Small
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- Forum: Birds & Birding
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Bird ID - Argentina Jujuy Province
Buff-browed Foliage-gleaner- Brian J Small
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- Forum: Bird Identification Q&A
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Juvenile Macronyx sp., 27 aug 2024 Masai Mara, Kenya
It is a longclaw (breadth of base of bill and look at those legs! etc...), but juvenile Pangani or Yellow-throated? Of the two, Pangani is most likely to have the streaking on undertail coverts, so I would say that. Brian- Brian J Small
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- Forum: Bird Identification Q&A
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Id Help - Mumbai, India - 6
data from 'Terns of Europe and N America', Olsen and Larsson hirundo - males 39.8; females 35.7 longipennis - males 35.2; females 33.5 tibetana - males 33.8; females 32.2 'very short' is still an exaggeration to me, but tibetana is indeed notably shorter in averaging 6mm (c 15%) shorter- Brian J Small
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- Forum: Bird Identification Q&A
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Id Help - Mumbai, India - 6
A slight exaggeration Valery - perhaps 2-3mm on average?- Brian J Small
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- Forum: Bird Identification Q&A
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Which Willet? - Pennsylvania
Hopefully someone will correct me if I am wrong, but the ages of the two birds are different. The photos are not great, but one is a worn and moulting adult (with stronger barring on the coverts/scaps); the other is a worn, faded juvenile (the more uniform, paler bird, with markings seemingly...- Brian J Small
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- Forum: Bird Identification Q&A
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Finch Id. Iran
I would suggest juvenile Crimson-winged Finch- Brian J Small
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- Forum: Bird Identification Q&A
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Pipits in centarl Sichuan, China
Can you really judge the hind claw length from this angle? See ML620669180 - Blyth's Pipit - Macaulay Library for example of length of Blyth's hind claw - eqaully as long as hind toe- Brian J Small
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- Forum: Bird Identification Q&A
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Pipits in centarl Sichuan, China
Last pic is a juv Blyth's?- Brian J Small
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- Forum: Bird Identification Q&A
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Green or Orange-winged Pytilia? Kruger NP South Africa, June 2023
https://macaulaylibrary.org/asset/216266601- Brian J Small
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- Forum: Bird Identification Q&A
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female Amur Paradise-Flycatcher Tamin Negara Malaysia May 24
Looks more like Chestnut-winged Babbler- Brian J Small
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- Forum: Bird Identification Q&A