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[lou salomon]

aha, that's why he was missing last week.

pics prob. only tomorrow (gotta care for my little one at the mo). sorry, dimi, if i post them later tonight, i know in greece it's about 1,5 hours later than here but you are a student and students have plenty of time... 3

 

[lou salomon]

here you go. 2 and 3.

 

[postcardcv]

first guesses...
1. purple sand
2. rustic bunting
3. common rosefinch
4. isabelline wheatear
5. dartford warbler

 

[Dimitris]

Ok....without books or anything...

1)Dunlin
2)Nutcracker
3)Serin
4)Tawny Pipit???
5)Er looks like the frozen balls of a monkey...No idea honest.

 

[lou salomon]

some close but none right. actually i trapped myself by using an obviously wrong labelled pic. i always felt it looked strange for that sp. but now that i worked with it i'm sure it's a mistake. hopefully we'll manage to id the bird together.

 

[lou salomon]

dimi 1/5

 

[Surreybirder]

My first guesses are:
1 red-necked stint
2 no idea at the moment (song thrush???)
3 serin
4 skylark (ah, I hadn't seen the fuller pic when I posted this)
5 Tristram's warbler
Ken

 

[Surreybirder]

some close but none right. actually i trapped myself by using an obviously wrong labelled pic. i always felt it looked strange for that sp. but now that i worked with it i'm sure it's a mistake. hopefully we'll manage to id the bird together.

Do you know where the pic was taken.... is it definitely a WP species?
Ken

 

[lou salomon]

yes, it was taken in romania; 1 sp. correct in your guess, ken.

 

[Jurij Hanžel]

1 Little Stint
2 ??
3 Serin
4 a nice mystery!! Some strange Pipit
5 Crossbill

 

[lou salomon]

i'm breakin' my own rules 'cause it seems obvious, that dimi was right with juv. SERIN.

as for no.4 i'll put it into open id debate because i'm not confident either on specific level though there are only 2 possibilities. MISTERY. it was labelled as juv rock thrush which it cannot be! presumably photgraphed in the dobrudja where the 2 possible sp. occure. - which ones?

and as a new no.4 (further treated as such) a new crop.

 

[Xenospiza]

1. Little Stint
2. Great Snipe
3. Serin
4a. It could be an immature Isabelline Wheatear (first breeding Romania in 1999). So little white in its tail... and this killed juvenile also shows those buffish tail tips: http://www.avestours.ro/imagebank/birdkillers/Pietrar rasaritean 2.jpg
Pied and Eastern Black-eared would have more white in their tails wouldn't they?
4b. White's Thrush
5. Tristram's Warbler

 

[ed keeble]

It's Friday afternoon- I shall venture in.

1. Little Stint
2. G S Cuckoo
3. Serin
4a. juv Wheatear I had from the outset, but was aiming at Pied.
4b. Fieldfare
5. Tristram's Warbler

 

[lou salomon]

hi xeno,

yes, i thought northern or isabelline. plumage it's wrong for the pair of pleschanka/melanoleuca. i tend to isabelline too. btw. they are quite widespread in suslik-biotopes in the dobrudja, maybe overlooked before 1999. careful with young pieds: the amount of black in tail can be as high as in northern! from this pic it looks like an issy tail. since mr. szabo labelled it as rock thrush i suppose it was taken in the macin-mountains (northern dobrudja), where rock thrush, northern and issy occure near each other.

your score: 2/5

 

[lou salomon]

sorry, edited:

white-back: 2/5

 

[Ghostly Vision]

The Wheatear looks like it may have too much black on the wings for Issy?

My guesses

1 Little stint
2 Nutcracker
3 Serin (a juv, at a guess)
4 Mistle thrush
5 Redstart

(Not actually looking at the pics as I type this!)

GV

 

[lou salomon]

The Wheatear looks like it may have too much black on the wings for Issy?

GV

maybe i should put in on the ID-forum? could be northern.

sean 1/5

 

[postcardcv]

1. Western sand
2. Lapland bunting
3. serin (kicking myself as this was my first thought....)
4. dusky thrush
5. Tristram's Warbler

 

[Dimitris]

1)Little Stint.
2)White's Thrush??
3)Serin
4)I'm staying out of this. But it looks Rock Thrush like...
5)Dartford Warbler.

 

[lou salomon]

peter 1/5
dimi 1/5 --> there is a second no. 4 (some marked it with 4b)
a rock thrush with such a long tail? and with white on upper tail? (white in rock thrush is on lower back) and with such light underparts? - they're heavier mottled. whole structure isn't RT.