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Anything possible to ID from this batch of birds? Kazakhstan (1 Viewer)
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rollingthunder
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Passerine possibly a White-winged Lark out of breeding plumage or a juv...
Laurie -
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They don't occur here but further north on the steppes there.
Jean FRANCOIS
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1- Kestrel,
2- Egyptian Vulture and Cinereous Vulture,
3- Egyptian Vulture ad.,
4- unidentifiable
5- Golden Eagle.
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Jean
2- Egyptian Vulture and Cinereous Vulture,
3- Egyptian Vulture ad.,
4- unidentifiable
5- Golden Eagle.
Friendly
Jean
Yes, 5 does look like a Golden Eagle - compare with this image: https://cottonwoodphoto.photoshelter.com/image/I0000YmjqORdNI3Y
emilj_j, is the larger Vulture in the 2nd image the same bird as in your other thread?
emilj_j, is the larger Vulture in the 2nd image the same bird as in your other thread?
I lightened the image of the bird you posted on the other thread. The ruff still looks white to me and the body of the bird has started to look warm brown, especially the side of the nape and upper breast. Looking at Forsman, underwing bars as shown by this bird should only be present in heavily moulting birds, so perhaps that's an explanation. Was this bird as dark as it appears in the photos?
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Yes it is.
Nutcracker
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Yes. "Cinereous" is an American renaming (so they could keep 'Black Vulture' unaltered for Coragyps atratus), highly inappropriate, as 'cinereous' means pale greyish-white (the colour of ashes), completely wrong for Aegypius monachus. High time it was deleted from the official lists.
You cannot be Cinereous!
rollingthunder
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Once again led by the nose with vernacular - as for the Lark/Bunting and supposed ‘range’ i had better take the Black Lark on Anglesey off my list because, well, it shouldn’t occur there.....:-O
Laurie:t:
Laurie:t:
Though I get your point, I don't think you could claim what would an extremely rare vagrant there from such a poor photo, which is probably not 100% reliable identifiable. Aksu is a fabulous place having been there 8 or 9 times.
rollingthunder
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A mate went on a guided tour there last year and thorougly loved it - the downside being that the group birder was unavailable so they provided a.....botanist and too long was spent travelling through habitat that they seemed to have passed through hours ago - they complained and got.....20 quid back:-O
I would like to visit and he drives so it will be a DIY a-la-Stratford
Laurie:t:
I would like to visit and he drives so it will be a DIY a-la-Stratford
Laurie:t:
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