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  1. opisska

    Squacco or Indian Pond? Oman

    I would actually much prefer IDs to be easy, I find it more of a nuisance than anything. Especially because I am bad both with visual clues and sounds and I notoriously suffer form inability to take decisions, so I never know when to actually accept my own IDs. That's why I have started literal...
  2. opisska

    Squacco or Indian Pond? Oman

    Oh thanks, this is so difficult then! I think all the pictures are taken within a kilometer from the sea - with the exception of, you guess, bird 12! Just to make it more puzzling. Only bird 3 is in proper mangroves, 1 and 2 are from Al Qurm park, close to a mangrove area, but not quite in it.
  3. opisska

    Squacco or Indian Pond? Oman

    Category 3: what is happening? (birds 15-16)
  4. opisska

    Squacco or Indian Pond? Oman

    Category 2 continued (birds 11-14)
  5. opisska

    Squacco or Indian Pond? Oman

    Category 2: likely Squacco (birds 6-10)
  6. opisska

    Squacco or Indian Pond? Oman

    We have accumulated a sizeable collection of non-breeding "Squacco" herons in Oman and I am still utterly confused. It seems the only reasonable mark is the loral line, but I see its presence as more of a spectrum than on/off. Nevertheless, I tried to separate the herons into categories, did I...
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