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Kazakhstan (1 Viewer)
- Thread starter Askar Isabekov
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Unknown duck ?
Askar: Very tricky bird indeed, however I think it maybe a female Velvet Scoter. I can't think what else sports a white wingbar similar to the bird you show. It also apparently has a Scoter beak.
Askar: Very tricky bird indeed, however I think it maybe a female Velvet Scoter. I can't think what else sports a white wingbar similar to the bird you show. It also apparently has a Scoter beak.
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Askar Isabekov
Well-known member
Thanks.
The white wingbar indicates to Wigeon but the bill is very large to this duck. Version of Scooter is very interesting !!!
The white wingbar indicates to Wigeon but the bill is very large to this duck. Version of Scooter is very interesting !!!
dwatsonbirder
Well-known member
Striolated/House bunting for me.
Severtzov
The damnedest thing you ever saw
The bunting looks like a female Pine Bunting in transition between winter and summer plumage. It is also a common winter visitor to that area of north-east Kazakhstan. It does not appear to have any Yellowhammer genes but you cannot be too sure about this from looking at just one photograph.
Striolated Bunting (House is restricted to North Africa) is not known from Central Asia and is unlikley to wander thousands of miles north of its breeding areas in the Middle East/Iran/India where it is largely resident and does not look anything like the Kazakhstan bird.
S
Striolated Bunting (House is restricted to North Africa) is not known from Central Asia and is unlikley to wander thousands of miles north of its breeding areas in the Middle East/Iran/India where it is largely resident and does not look anything like the Kazakhstan bird.
S
chris butterworth
aka The Person Named Above
Female Eur. Wigeon and (probable) fem. Pine Bunting. Although the Bunting is not showing any yellow, without a lot more photo's I couldn't be sure of it not being a hybrid.
Chris
Chris
Duck
Askar. The bill should be blue for Wigeon and looks too big for me and with that distiinct sloping bridge to the upper mandible looks more Scoter to me.
Askar. The bill should be blue for Wigeon and looks too big for me and with that distiinct sloping bridge to the upper mandible looks more Scoter to me.
