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Birds for ID - India (2 Viewers)

wingsnwilds

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Need help with the ID for the birds from the attached images.

Here are the locations for the images:

Tern1: Alibaug, Maharashtra, India
Tern2: Alibaug, Maharashtra, India
Gull1: Alibaug, Maharashtra, India
Gull2: Alibaug, Maharashtra, India
Vulture1: Dapoli, Maharashtra, India
 

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Gull1 - Brown-headed Gulls with one Slender-billed in the center and a Lesser Crested Tern in the front.
Gull 2 - Pallas's Gull, two Brown-headed Gulls in front and the rest are Steppe Gulls
Tern1 - Little Tern (with a Terek Sandpiper front and a Sandplover sp. back)
Tern2 - Sandwich Tern
Vulture1 - looks like an immature Indian Vulture
 
Terek sandpiper in the foreground of "tern 1" - I guess Little tern is the default, though I wouldn't want to rule out Saunders from that image.
Lesser crested tern in the foreground of Gull 1 (which are slender billed)
"Gull 2" contains 4 species - Pallas's, Caspian and (possibly Lesser-black backed of some variety) and either Black/Brown headed gulls.

Edit - cross posted with Lou, take his word on gulls over mine any day!
 

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