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    Interesting Sylvia warbler

    Perhaps it is time for you to reveal your ID?
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    Interesting Sylvia warbler

    I'm still seeing a Sardinian Warbler. The other side of the face is not so dusty so the ear coverts look less contrasting and there appears to be a fleshy eye-ring and no white crescent. Primary projection isn't long to my eyes.
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    Interesting Sylvia warbler

    @smiths I don't see any white around the eye (just dust). The eye ring is obscure. The primary projection is partly hidden and exaggerated by the exposed bases of the primaries (incomplete tertials).
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    Desert Lark

    Hi Kirsten. Yes, that's a Desert Lark. Bar-tailed Lark is a dainty bird compared with this.
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    Interesting Sylvia warbler

    To me, that's a female Sardinian Warbler. The face is very dusty with pollen (or dust!) across the lores, forehead and eye area.
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    Help with ID from Photo

    Hi That's a Northern Mockingbird you have there.
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    Eurasian or Short-toed Treecreeper, Spain

    That hind claw looks short to me.
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    Hybrid Branta, Belgium, 20th Feb 2019

    I was thinking Greylag and Bar-headed. The neck "ridges" (I don't know the technical term) suggest Greylag to me. And as Greylag can have orange legs & bill, maybe those Bar-headed similarities are coincidence. But a sturdy goose with yellow legs, yellow bill with black tip, pale grey body...
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    Hybrid Branta, Belgium, 20th Feb 2019

    Hi Joern I agree with all of that. I should have more explicit, I don't see Barnacle Goose in that bird at all. I think the Barnacle-like markings are from a Bar-headed parent. John
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    Hybrid Branta, Belgium, 20th Feb 2019

    Hi Joern Expert analysis as always! This example you posted (as a hybrid with orange legs) seems to have a lot in common with Bar-headed Goose, including the bill & leg colour and the dark smudge above the leg. https://waarneming.nl/fotonew/7/10673437.jpg What do you think? John
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    ID needed, Israel 2017

    I would say the first two are Common Redstart and the third is a Thrush Nightingale
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    Sri Lanka, three birds, help with ID needed

    PYRTLE has the babbler. The others are Indian Pond Heron and Blue-tailed Bee-eater.
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    Rapter mexico

    Why not young Black Hawk?
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    Arctic skua?

    An oiled gull, is it not?
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    Greater Spotted Eagle? (in Turkey)

    It's a Shag
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    Deceaced bird found midlothian , VA

    Your bird looks more like a Blue Grosbeak to me (prominent bill, black around the face, colour/pattern of the wings, bright blue).
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    Hybrid Grey Goose - Kingston Seymour - 15.04.17

    A Greylag with some domestic influence could explain the white forehead.
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    Melanistic Seebohm’s Wheatear?

    Is this a very worn individual with the extra black being due to feather wear and dark feather bases?
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    What is the name of the bird? Egypt

    Pale Rock Sparrow (Carpospiza brachydactyla)? It has the chestnut panel on the wing and looks like a large elongated female House Sparrow.
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    2nd generation goose hybrid, Flamborough, England.

    Hi Brett A similar bird used to live on the river in York. I, too, took it to be an F2 hybrid. The usual "rules" of breeding do not seem to apply to ducks and geese. As Fugl says, Joern is the guy for these questions. You could also post the pics to Dave Appleton's Flickr group
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    Raptor ID help: Kruger National Park

    Little Sparrowhawk is a different species than Shikra.
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    Wren -- S Oaxaca, Mexico

    Looks like Rufous-naped. It looks like a young bird (generally; don't know this species' immature plumage specifically) and the one behind it has typically pale underparts so I'd guess that this is an adult Rufous-naped Wren at the back with a juvenile in front.
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    Warbler, Cuba, October

    3-5 looks like Palm to me
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    Nocturnal call, London (outer)

    Have you been foxed by a fox? Foxes are yelping at this time of year... Three staccato yelps rising slightly in tone.
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    Costa Rica ID help

    Nice photos! Don't they both have rufous flanks and white belly?
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