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ID please UK winter and spring (1 Viewer)

eddy the eagle

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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
 

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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.
 
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
 
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...
 
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.
 
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