please help me identify my birds in srilanka march2022 (1 Viewer)

[Damooni]

pinavala the river near elephent bay hotel
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rangiri dambulu temple above mountain

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7.rangiri dambulu temple above mountain

 

[Butty]

1. Common sandpipers.
2. One of the flameback-type of woodpecker. Looks like lesser goldenback.
3. A prinia.
4, 6. Common iora.
5. Little swifts.
7. Oriental hobby.

 

[dwatsonbirder]

2) Red-backed flameback 3) Plain or Jungle Prinia - looks like Plain due to supercilium, but tricky image. 7) Not sure I could rule out Shaheen falcon from this image personally.
Agree with Butty for the rest.

 

[Butty]

2. ... Looks like lesser goldenback.

2) Red-backed flameback

(In Sri Lanka,) they're the same thing. Just depends on one's preferred taxonomy.

7) Not sure I could rule out Shaheen falcon from this image personally.

( = peregrine, race peregrinator). No, me neither.

 

[dwatsonbirder]

(In Sri Lanka,) they're the same thing. Just depends on one's preferred taxonomy.

I think it is a full split now isn't it? I'm slowly working through my IOC lifelist at present, and the splits are a nightmare!

 

[Butty]

a full split

There ain't no such thing - sadly. Each of us follows whichever taxonomy pleases us. But that's another discussion altogether...

 

[Andy Adcock]

I think it is a full split now isn't it? I'm slowly working through my IOC lifelist at present, and the splits are a nightmare!

It is split on the IOC, Lesser / Black-rumped / Flameback /Goldenback is a separate species though both occur in Sri Lanka.

And it is a Hobby, not a Shaheen IMHO.

 

[Dortmundbirder]

Oriental Hobby, is not recorded on Sri Lanka as far as I know.
So should be a Shaheen.

 

[Valéry Schollaert]

Shape is wrong for a hobby, moustache much too large ; it is clearly a Peregrine Falcon of the local subspecies (Falco peregrinus peregrinator), sometimes called "Shaheen" indeed.

 

[Butty]

moustache much too large [for Oriental hobby]

I don't know the ID, but it won't be (in my opinion) proven by this criterion. After Daniel's helpful comment I spent quite a while looking at photos for the size and shape of the cheek-patch (it's much bigger than just a 'moustache'), in flight, in both Oriental hobby and peregrinator peregrine, and if anything the patch tends to be bigger in Oriental hobby. In birds with a big patch (as in the OP's bird), the shape of the rear of the patch might distinguish the two, but cheek-patch-size itself does not identify the bird as the local peregrine, even if from other features (e.g. wing-length and -shape) it may be one.