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    Gull ID - Norfolk, UK

    Hello, agree with Valéry, but with such a weak primary window (yew, rarely nearly absent in Herring Gull, compare Gull Research Organisation ) quite uniform dark outer greater coverts in flight, "two-patterned" tertials (I hope thats understandable) and slightly unusual sapular pattern (...
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    Ruff in Bangkok

    Hello Alladin, no offense you know, sometimes its better to name the pictures with the numbers. I admit, I regulary dont follow the rule, but here it is important I think. 122 is a Marsh Sandpiper imo. Bill is at the short end of variation for this species, but fine enough and straight. Steep...
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    Pintail hybrid

    Hello Jim, (presuming your observation is from somewhere in Yorkshire) its a Muscovy x Mallard hybrid imo. There are some threads about this here on BF. Please note: elongated, wedge-shaped tail green speculum I tried hard to see pinkish-flesh hues on the bill, and they might well be there...
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    Juvenile gull ID - Ireland, Belfast

    Hello Leif, interesting bird, tfs! Its a LBBG imo. Please note dark shins. I wouldnt bother about the greater covert pattern, as the outer ones are uniformly dark. I agree with you, the tertial pattern seems unusual for a pure LBBG, maybe an hybrid. There are some examples in Harry Husseys...
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    Excellent Gull ID video

    Yes, in German, but I hope useful for non-native speakers too. From Jakob Vratny
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    Bavarian and Austrian Birds

    Hello, first is a Spotted Flycatcher. Just by unique jizz and gut feeling. Second is a Willow Tit imo. Please note prominent wingpanel and large whitish cheek patch reaching far towards the neck. Last one is a Willow Warbler. Please note yellow underparts and pale orangebrown legs.
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    Leaf warbler ID? Central alborz mountain Oct

    Hello, its one of the Chiffchaff (ssp) imo. It looks quite unusual fo a central European bird to me (brightly smooth colouration and "tristris-tobacco" hue to the ear-coverts, but clear yellow bits in the underparts and supercilium. I have seen similar birds mainly in winter and early spring...
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    Help ID please 🙏

    Hello, belated welcome to Birdforum! Thats a Meadow Pipit. Ignoring similar Tree Pipit (doesnt occur in winter) and a rare Red-throated Pipit (both species can be eliminated by flank streaking and head pattern), please note quite uniform brownish colouration, paler on underparts heavily...
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    Comment by 'Alexander Stöhr' in media 'Pallid Harrier Male'

    Hello Shantilal, I totally agree with Kits, tfs your excellent pictures! Please note, that this is a Montagus Harrier imo. Rufous streams to the flanks and the black wingbar are just visible.
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    Duck, Rügen/Germany

    Hello, do you have more pictures? Agree with you and Daniel, there is a male Pintail. But the right bird looks like a female Mallard IMO. Please note bulk body, dark dirty colourarion (and shortish white tail ?)
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    Woodpecker - SW Poland

    Hello, I agree with Bewick and Harry, its a juvenile GSW I remember an old Alula paper about this topic. The pattern of the outer tail feathers is important. Please note, that this bird has much white and only two narrow broken bars in the outermost tail-feather ( at the extreme end of...
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    Is this a common sandpiper please?

    Hello, belated welcome to Birdforum! I agree with you, its a Common Sandpiper. Breast-pattern is very good for this and a good feature as you are surely aware of. So I can only say ID confirmed.
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    Gull id - Spain

    Hello, I cant find anything wrong for a subadult Yellow-legged Gull, the default large Gull here. With most similar Herring Gull the much rarer species. Dirty/pale, not bright yellow bill and legs is normal for an immature bird. I think its a 4cy bird, mainly by immature tertials, but black...
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    Gull - Essex UK - 02/01

    Helllo, its a 2nd Winter bird.Please note lack of white spots in the wingtip (normally prominent white spots in adult now) And complete black tip to the bill is also better for an immature bird, most adult birds have a black band near the bill tip or lacking dark markings there
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    Holland Tij Observatory in June last year

    Hello, with legs appearing dark in another device, It think its a Chiffchaff
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    Holland Tij Observatory in June last year

    Hello Ian, despite an Icterine impression, I think bright green fringes to the greater coverts, dark lores and bill shape makes this either a Willow Warbler or a Chiffchaff. But wich one? Yes, it seems to habe a short pp and lack of a supervilium, but pale fleshy brown lege and clean...
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    Guess the bird-

    Firecrest then?
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    Found in South Wingfield Churchyard. A bit chewed round the neck. Sparrow hawk v Kestrel I'm guessing.

    Hello, the poor bird is a Kestrel. Please note: brown back, nearly bronze (but not). A good colouration for this species and as its rare or absent in other european raptors (even the variable Common Buzzard, that lacks this nearly bronze tinge too), together with the regular cross-bar pattern...
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    Gull -- Spremberger Talsperre, Germany

    Hello Henry, its an adult Caspian Gull imo. Please note small head, quite longish neck abd slightly bulging breast resulting in a good "giraffe-like" impression, more expressed in ID friendlier individuals, but still there in your bird small dark eye bleached, but pure yellow bill, some YLG...
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    Guess the bird-

    yes, thats the one. No better picture, was very distant
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    Guess the bird-

    no
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    Guess the bird-

    none of them
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    Guess the bird-

    no and I just realized that my hint led in the wrong direction. Sorry, its no Goose
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    Guess the bird-

    none of them (but two answers are close)
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    Guess the bird-

    No
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