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  1. lou salomon

    slavonian grebe? Eyebrook Reservoir 20/3/25

    no Red-necked Grebe in here, only Slavonian (Horned) and Great Crested
  2. lou salomon

    Carrapateira, Algarve, Portugal June 2024

    hooded look of a greenshank: Common Greenshank - Tringa nebularia gannet is about 3 x the size of a duck and its wing beats are very slow. a greenshank flaps much faster - maybe you can recollect the way it was flapping? greenshank is more like a "duck size", though being much more slender. I...
  3. lou salomon

    Carrapateira, Algarve, Portugal June 2024

    Shape of the whole bird (long rear end etc) and the way it flies is all wrong for a Shearwater or a Gannet. Both have much longer wings which can be assessed even from this angle.
  4. lou salomon

    Lark / South of Spain

    on bill shape (long, slim and straight lower edge) this should be a Crested Lark, I guess.
  5. lou salomon

    Cormorant ID (Portugal - 20/03/2025)

    definitely an immature Great Cormorant but question is if sinensis or maroccanus. Not having experience with ssp. maroccanus, I still think white ear coverts are probably enough to make it a Moroccan Great Cormorant. Anyone with an online identification article for immatures of these subspecies?
  6. lou salomon

    Eastern olivaceous warbler ?

    yes, Eastern Olivaceous Warbler.
  7. lou salomon

    Need a help with this terns...

    that bird is in its first winter and on upperside would show a conspicous double "w".
  8. lou salomon

    Carrapateira, Algarve, Portugal June 2024

    Breeding plumaged Greenshank can look quite dark on head (strong striation). And it is still moulting - head is finished and breast will still get more striation, at least that's how I interprete these pics. And yes, feet project beyond tail in flying Greenshank.
  9. lou salomon

    Hampshire Gull ID

    yes, on shape, weak bill (well, it's a female type) and shortish legs it should be a HG with a slight yellowish tingue to legs.
  10. lou salomon

    Carrapateira, Algarve, Portugal June 2024

    Greenshank rather than stilt, but I doubt you can get a sure ID.
  11. lou salomon

    Need a help with this terns...

    The pale bird surely is not a Little Gull. Nonbreeding adult should have dark grey underwings, a 2nd cycle would show dark remiges and pale coverts plus some black in wingtips, and both mentioned ages would be in mid moult of primaries by beginning of August. And of course it isn't a juvenile...
  12. lou salomon

    Hampshire Gull ID

    Yes, adult HG. Feet look mostly pink on my screen. However, a few argenteus can show a yellow hue to legs at this time of year.
  13. lou salomon

    Gull I.D

    There are several options. I can't even exclude a 2nd cycle YLG on this pic (in 2nd cycle underparts and axillaries can be white in YLG, less so in 1st cycle). The other options would be cachinnans or a cachinnans-hybrid with HG. But you'd need more and better pics to ID it, including ones that...
  14. lou salomon

    Dubai Bird ID

    There are only upperparts visible, Muppit. And look at the peculiar wing pattern. Chestnut-bellied would have blackish outer wing, these show the mustard coloured inner wing patch (with black stripes formed by feather tips) and a greyish outer wing.
  15. lou salomon

    Which Falcon? Iran, Khorasan-e Razavi, Mar. 2025

    To me it's quite an obvious young male Merlin.
  16. lou salomon

    Gull I.D

    Not really IDable but I seriously doubt it is a pure HG with those white axillaries and pale body.
  17. lou salomon

    Dubai Bird ID

    True. Body is very black and nape possibly too pale for Steppe Eagle?
  18. lou salomon

    Large Gull ID - Ireland, North Coast

    Looks like a 4th cycle, yes, especially on large primary tips.
  19. lou salomon

    Sept 2019 Sparrows request help with id

    In September Spanish Sparrows usually already leave their breeding teritory and migrate south (only the ones breeding in the Balkans of course, western ones usually don't migrate). So, in certain places (northern Bulgaria, Romania) by mid September usually they are left or really hard to find.
  20. lou salomon

    Request id help gulls

    that would also be my favourite (tentative) ID.
  21. lou salomon

    Large Gull ID - Ireland, North Coast

    actually, in a 4th cycle, tail usually is white.
  22. lou salomon

    Dubai Bird ID

    For me too. 4 looks like an adult Steppe Eagle. Sandgrouses should be Pin-tailed on appearance.
  23. lou salomon

    Request id help gulls

    002 - 2nd cycle LBBG 003 - 1st cycle LBBG 004 - 1st cycle HG or LBBG, impossible to tell 005 - 1st cycle HG
  24. lou salomon

    Sept 2019 Sparrows request help with id

    slight flank striation, overall paleness and very pale bill suggest Spanish Sparrow indeed, but always better to have some males around with these.
  25. lou salomon

    Request help id warbler species Bulgaria, 2019 (September)

    that's not a wing bar but the tips of the greater coverts, or if you mean the pale "band" - it's the greater coverts themselves. No pale wingbar. And it is a Willow Warbler as suggested in the other threads.
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