Hello I took there photographs a couple of days ago in Merida Spain, I think the first 3 are Reed Warblers not sure about the last picture but Serin were about.
Mike
Mike
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Help with IDs Merida, Spain (1 Viewer)
- Thread starter Mike Beer
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First looks like a Sylvia warbler to me.
Alexander Stöhr
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Hello Mike,
I agree with you and Mike:
first is a Common Whitethroat: brightening up the shadow makes a bright brown panel of the greater covers appear. Similar Spectateld Warbler excluded by long pp (there are recent threads here on BF. Thanks from me, too!)
2 and 3 are Reed/African Reed Warblers: both show the right, snout, elongated head-bill profile for an Acrocephalus/Reed Warbler and very long under-tail coverts (ID friendly birds, thanks to them!)
4 is a Serin: a smal, compact, stubby billed (yes, whishful thinking!) with a drab, streaked plumage and a strikingly bright yellow rump as the only "jumping-out" feature
I agree with you and Mike:
first is a Common Whitethroat: brightening up the shadow makes a bright brown panel of the greater covers appear. Similar Spectateld Warbler excluded by long pp (there are recent threads here on BF. Thanks from me, too!)
2 and 3 are Reed/African Reed Warblers: both show the right, snout, elongated head-bill profile for an Acrocephalus/Reed Warbler and very long under-tail coverts (ID friendly birds, thanks to them!)
4 is a Serin: a smal, compact, stubby billed (yes, whishful thinking!) with a drab, streaked plumage and a strikingly bright yellow rump as the only "jumping-out" feature
