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    Rock Dove - easiest access to tick original ones, and whether you've done so

    The research on OH (Uist) rock doves is still ongoing by Will Smith who's paper was linked. He would argue that the OH population is worth saving as a pure population due to the very limited influence of feral pigeons. In the Uists & Barra there's only occasional lost racing pigeons and a tiny...
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    Gull from Japan. ID needed

    Gerben, it may be lighting, but the upperpart grey looks too dark in shade as does the darker markings on the primaries to be pure G-W gull. If you zoom in iris may be too pale for pure G-W gull too.
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    Puffinus ID - Almada (Portugal) - August 2024

    Agree these are pretty much unidentifiable due to image quality unfotunately. Balearics can be very pale, close to Manx or Yelkouan and the birds breeding on Menorca include some apparent Balearic x Yelkouan hybrids which are pale. See Manx, Balearic and Yelkouan Shearwaters photo ID guide...
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    Bullfinch in Sichuan, China, July

    With the caveat that I've never seen either, from looking at various fieldguides they suggest that brown has only a narrow white band on the lower rump but grey-headed has a much larger white rump. From what can be seen between the wings it looks much more like the latter so juv/f grey-headed...
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    Gulls from Iceland June 2024

    Bird in centre of first pic is a glaucous x herring (quite regular in Iceland), note the blackish markings in the primary tips, others look like glaucous. Pics of immatures are both glaucous, beside the build and the thicker bill already mentioned glaucous have a a blunter less elongated rear...
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    Feather ID?

    Outer primary of a red-bellied woodpecker potentially fits.
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    Dark Gulls in Eastern Ontario last week

    Look like very fresh recently fledged(dark) juvenile American herring gulls.
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    Various Raptors - South Essex UK - 12th May

    First is female type marsh harrier, 2-4 are male hen harrier. Upper bird of last two may be unidentifiable but I can't see why it isn't a silhouetted osprey would explain the apparent long wings (or a slightly distorted common buzzard), lower bird to me is a another female/immature marsh harrier...
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    2 Ollantaytambo, Peru, October

    Tail looks very long on 1-2 for many spotted, is it a female/juv trainbearer species?
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    Sparrow near Sonoita, AZ -- could this be a Baird's?

    Can you rule out a juv grasshopper sparrow from that pic? breast markings too strong? Looks very weak head/face pattern wise for Baird's or even Savannah.
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    ? Warbler New Jersey, USA

    maybe I'm losing my marbles but why isn't this a house wren at an odd angle?
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