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[Dimitris]

1)Rock Nuthatch
2)Glossy Ibis???
3)Um is that a chick under the bird?Gyr Falcon on the Tundra??????
4)Mousier's Redstart???(unlikely,but it seems too dark for any of the 'Turkiss' Redstarts..
5)Going on the wings and the dark coloration.Eleonoras Falcon.Could be Skua sp. though....

 

[Jurij Hanžel]

1 Citril Finch
2 can't explain the light areas but looks awfully similar to a pic you put in Ger/Rom quiz and was a Glossy Ibis
4 can't be as simple as Whinchat but my imagination is down

 

[lou salomon]

maybe the vegetation helps?

 

[lou salomon]

one has been named correctly

 

[lou salomon]

dimitris 1 (one) point for seeing the chick in no. 3 (i wouldn't have).

oh, and sorry, didn't notice: plus 1 point for a correct species.

you guys:think what i've told you about the pattern in the combination, about "oddities" and about the aerc list!

 

[Dimitris]

3)Red-throated Pipit?

 

[lou salomon]

no dimi, but you're on the right path with the biotop.

 

[Dimitris]

Um the little one looks like a wader chick.Sanderling for 3)

 

[Surreybirder]

I'm out of my depth here but what the heck.............
1 Algerian nuthatch
2 glossy ibis
3 Caucasian snowcock
4 long-tailed Shrike
5 sooty falcon (those wings are incredibly long!)
Ken

 

[Jurij Hanžel]

First of all, I'd like to ask: What's an aerc list? Can it be seen online?

 

[lou salomon]

http://www.aerc.be/Documents.htm
scroll down to the last document "bird taxa of the WP" (pdf)

ken 1/5

 

[lou salomon]

Um the little one looks like a wader chick.Sanderling for 3)

one more point. no, half a point is enough for this :-O

 

[Dimitris]

1)Blue Tit??
2)Great Knot

 

[Surreybirder]

#3 looks like dwarf birch to me. Are we looking for a tundra species, like Temminck's stint?
Ken

 

[lou salomon]

that's why i awarded dimitris with 0,5 pt. but no, not temminck's.

 

[Surreybirder]

that's why i awarded dimitris with 0,5 pt. but no, not temminck's.

Wood sand?

 

[edenwatcher]

A bit late here but
3. spoon-billed sandpiper.

Rob

 

[lou salomon]

A bit late here but
3. spoon-billed sandpiper.

Rob

bingo :t: . :clap:
2 points for you; next time you should go for all 5 species first, rob, otherwise i wouldn't tell you which one is right. just this time we obviously discussed no.3 which is:

 

[lou salomon]

can someone confirm the dwarf birch in this pic? it looks more like willow (salix) species to me from the leaves but i haven't been to the tundra yet, unfortunately.

 

[Xenospiza]

can someone confirm the dwarf birch in this pic? it looks more like willow (salix) species to me from the leaves but i haven't been to the tundra yet, unfortunately.

You're right, it is a willow (possibly Salix arctica): the catkins give it away. But (some of) the leaves look more like blueberry (Vaccinium) than willow to me...