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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Arend" data-source="post: 2153936" data-attributes="member: 4172">Hi, I agree of course with all on how you can distinguish between the two. What I wanted to say is that I find it always fascinating how each of us birders, even experienced ones, have our own "sets of confusing species two-somes". Others don't understand, but we struggle. I remember how here in Kathmandu I struggled five years ago with Black and Ashy Drongo, while my friends did not know what my problem was. What I would do nowadays is just google images of the two thrushes and copy many pics of them side-by-side in to one Microsoft Paint file (expand the size/canvas), one row of Song and one of Mistle and just look. Or mix them and try to guess each one. Same with sounds: download a few and listen to them in a media player after pushing the shuffle button, and try to guess each time. Nice for a rainy day.Cheers, Arend</blockquote>