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    tit - parnitha, greece

    Here is a tit I saw on Mt Parnitha (Athens) about a year ago. Is it a coal tit or sombre tit? Thanks!
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    passerines and raptors bulgaria

    I actually took a picture of a white-tailed and corn bunting during the last days, so ill upload them for comparison :) also the number of fingers on the wing of the white-tailed seems different to me...
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    passerines and raptors bulgaria

    Hey Lou, Thanks for your reply. Don't you think the head is too small for white-tailed? Also, shouldnt the corn bunting have an even bigger beak? Thanks again!
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    passerines and raptors bulgaria

    10) sparrowhawk? 11) bad picture, so i dont expect much here, but maybe LSE? 12) this one lost its tail, so it was trickier to identify... possibly an imperial eagle? Thanks!!
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    passerines and raptors bulgaria

    6) red-throated pipit? still possible in this season? 7) red-backed shrike juvenile? 8) wheatear? 9) whinchat? 3 more raptors to come!
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    passerines and raptors bulgaria

    Hey everybody! Here are some pictures of birds I found hard to identify. Please help me out :) 1) bunting? 2) bunting? 3) crested lark? 4) crested lark? 5) flycatcher? more to come!
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    Birds, north of Sweden

    Thanks for your replies! Anybody else on the tit?
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    Birds, north of Sweden

    Thanks Ben! For what it helps, all pictures were taken in Padjelanta, except for number 3 which is from Kiruna.
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    Birds, north of Sweden

    6) Willow Warbler 7) Again Willow Warbler? Thanks!!
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    Birds, north of Sweden

    Hey, Here are some birds I saw in the north of Sweden and that Id like to have some help identifying them. 1) White-tailed Eagle? 2) Ptarmigan or Willow Grouse? 3) Yellowhammer? 4) Some Flycatcher? 5) Willow/Marsh/Siberian Tit? 2 more to come...
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    starling, forest southwest ethiopia

    These pictures were taken at the same time, but not from the same induvidual if I remember correctly. Is it a blue-eared one...? Thanks!
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    grey or black-headed batis, ethiopia

    grey or black-headed batis... which of the two is it :) thanks!
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    raptors ethiopia

    Unfortunately I dont have any other pics of this brown raptor, because it flew off. Here is one more picture on those 2 eagles though, but dont think it will be of much help. Also another picture of the goshawk from picture 6. Can it not be a juv. Gabar goshawk? Its belly seems a bit rufous and...
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    raptors ethiopia

    6) .... Awash NP 7) .... fish market Awassa 8) .... mountains close to Dodola thanks!
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    raptors ethiopia

    Here are several raptors I came across while traveling in Ethiopia. Hope you can help me out identifying them. 1) Tawny Eagle? Mountains close to Dodola 2) no idea... it was eating a lizzard. Awash NP 3) steppe eagle? next to river in Awash NP 4) dark-chanting or gabar goshawk? Awash NP 5)...
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    birds ethiopia

    These 2 birds we actually caught, but still it was hard to identify them. 1) juv firefinch? red-billed? although it misses red colour in the face. also it has this white dot next to the beak... 2) sort of vidua species? different bird, but again this white dot... both birds are from the...
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    birds ethiopia

    Some horrible pictures, sorry for that. But I wanted to give it a shot anyway. 1) african stonechat? (mountains close to dodola) 2) grebe? (wetland close to Jimma) 3) lesser jacana? (wetland close to Jimma) 4) red-winged starling? or slender-billed? (mountains close to dodola) 5) red-breasted...
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    4 birds europe (sweden, greece, poland)

    Need some help with these ones pls:) 1) willow warbler? (in Dalarna Sweden) 2) Saw it in the forest in a clearcut area (in Dalarna Sweden) 3) sandpiper? (Schinias, Greece) 4) spotted flycatcher or redstart female/ juv? (Auschwitz, Poland) Thanks!
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    raptors and 3 other birds, agaro, ethiopia

    Thanks! So juvenile great sparrowhawks have yellow eyes whereas the adults have red ones? The field guide doesnt mention anything about this namely...
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    raptors and 3 other birds, agaro, ethiopia

    Hey thanks for your answers. Just to be clear, the bird in picture number 4 is the same individual, just from different angles :)
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    raptors and 3 other birds, agaro, ethiopia

    So 4 more... 6) a sparrowhawk of some sort? rufous-breasted perhaps? 7) blue-spotted wood dove even though the bill tip doesnt seem yellow? 8) little bee-eaters? 9) no idea really... maybe garden warbler? saw it in the forest close to a dried up stream... 10) EDIT: added another picture of the...
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    raptors and 3 other birds, agaro, ethiopia

    Here are some birds Ive seen recently in Ethiopia. Some of them I have posted already in another thread, but Im just seeing if I can get any more responses. I feel slightly embarrassed asking about raptors we've actually had in our hand, but they are tricky sometimes :D. 1) Augur Buzzard, Great...
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    some birds, ethiopian highlands

    anybody else has thoughts on the eagle and the small bird?
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    some birds, ethiopian highlands

    Hey TZ, One thing I could see about the Eagle was that it was raining at the time I took the picture, so possibly it had his feathers like this due to the rain. I also added the 3 other pictures we took of the small brown bird and I can give you some measurements: wing 64mm, tail 39mm and...
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    some birds, ethiopian highlands

    Thanks everybody! Here is another 3 pictures (hopefully better). 31) juvenile tawny eagle? 32) this looked like a scaly-throated honeyguide, but since it was moulting heavily i would like to hear some other opinions. 33) is this a juvenile pin-tailed whydah? there is a lot of these small...
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