ID please UK winter and spring (1 Viewer)

[eddy the eagle]

I have been sent the pics to try and ID.
Young bird in hand probable starling?
bird on Grass fieldfare?
bird on concrete snow bunting?
Your knowledge is apreciated as alway thank you ....Eddy

 

[Nutcracker]

#1 - probably a Song Thrush
#2 - Linnet, male
#3 - leucistic (partial albino) something; def not Snow Bunting

 

[Steve_Halstead]

2 linnet for sure,

1, I remember a blackbird like this, but still part of the thrush family

3, god have mercy on its soul

 

[AlfArbuthnot]

1. song thrush
2. linnet
3. zebra finch (escape)

 

[P.Sunesen]

1. song thrush
2. linnet
3. zebra finch (escape)

Agree, but perhaps the thrush could be Mistle?

 

[Tiraya]

Talk about a genuinely difficult song vs mistle thrush id.

 

[AlfArbuthnot]

Agree, but perhaps the thrush could be Mistle?

Coverts are too richly buff, I think.

 

[Gill Osborne]

2 is a Fieldfare and 3 immediately reminded me of the Zebra Finches I used to work with :t:

 

[dantheman]

2 is a Fieldfare and 3 immediately reminded me of the Zebra Finches I used to work with :t:

Except it's a Linnet

(Size, white outer tail feathers, dark bill, jizz ... )

 

[P.Sunesen]

Coverts are too richly buff, I think.

You may well be right.......congratulations with the first thousand:t:

 

[DaveN]

2 is a Fieldfare

Hmmm, no it's not. It's a Linnet, as has already been said.

 

[Watts]

Not a Zebra Finch

 

[AlfArbuthnot]

Not a Zebra Finch

Why not?

Partial leucistic (pied), of course. But short square black tail, red legs, greyish/brown back?

 

[Nutcracker]

Why not?

Partial leucistic (pied), of course. But short square black tail, red legs, greyish/brown back?

bitter_bugger got this one best 3

3, god have mercy on its soul

 

[lou salomon]

it's a long tailed surfbird https://farm9.staticflickr.com/8240/8498414857_829570d3e9.jpg

 

[stonechat1]

Why not?

Partial leucistic (pied), of course. But short square black tail, red legs, greyish/brown back?

No doubt that it is a Zebra Finch.

 

[Watts]

Why not?

Partial leucistic (pied), of course. But short square black tail, red legs, greyish/brown back?

The zebra finch is named for the black and white cross stripes on the tail.

If you're saying this is some sort of variety that has mutated or has been bred to remove the characteristic zebra-look then you might be right.

 

[stonechat1]

The zebra finch is named for the black and white cross stripes on the tail.
If you're saying this is some sort of variety that has mutated or has been bred to remove the characteristic zebra-look then you might be right.

No one mentioned that it´s a bird from the nomate form. Good that one of my friends breeds zebra finches (my daughter once too) and won the world championship exhibition many times.
Here is a characteristic zebra finch like requested in the standards, note the tail (and this is just one example):
http://www.zebrafinken.org/Farben1/sbmaske.htm

 

[stevethehydra]

A leucistic Linnet on concrete in an urban area? Seems fairly unlikely - one of the most notable things about Linnets to me is that, while they are common in virtually any rural habitat in the UK, I have *never* seen one within, or even within a mile or two of, a town or city. If it is a leucistic Linnet, it's almost as certain to be an escape from captivity (many native finches are bred in captivity and most have colour mutations) as if it's a Zebra Finch...

 

[Watts]

No one mentioned that it´s a bird from the nomate form. Good that one of my friends breeds zebra finches (my daughter once too) and won the world championship exhibition many times.
Here is a characteristic zebra finch like requested in the standards, note the tail (and this is just one example):
http://www.zebrafinken.org/Farben1/sbmaske.htm

Fair enough; might well be a Zebra Finch that has had its characteristic feature bred out. They are among the easiest captive breeders (which is how I bred them more than 40 years ago) so almost any form is possible.