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Mostly waterbirds and gulls -- Sweden (1 Viewer)

Henry_Flower

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Germany
Hi,
Can anyone help with a few queries from locations in Sweden, all last week?

Bird 1 at Sandomar (coastal, south of Stockholm):

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Same bird to give an idea of size (ringed plover on the right, I believe):

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Birds 2 and 3, at Tyresta National Park, south of Stockholm. The birds dived (~30 seconds each time). Two angles:

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Bird 4 at Angarnsjöängen, lake north of Stockholm. Northern Wheatear?

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And two gulls in Gothenburg. Bird 5 -- Great black back? It looked larger than nearby herring gulls.

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Bird 6 -- common gull?

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We'd be grateful for help with any of these!
 
Hello Henry,

since you have asked: I agree with you and all, that the right bird in your second picture is a Common Ringed Plover. Adding to the right colours and black mask, the adopted hunched posture with raised tail is regular seen at interactions between Ringed Plovers, also on migration.
And its not a (common?) posture of other waders, but I am not sure, if they never use it, but surely so rare, that I use it as an identification feature here.
 

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