Warbler from Turkey (1 Viewer)

[Gerdzhikov]

Hello,

I found this picture in my archives. Picture were taken in Turkey, close to Adana (South central Turkey) on 1.9.2013.
On the first hand i think that this is a Common whitethroat, but for me the bill is bigger and color of the eye.

I`ll be happy if you can give your opinion

Thanks

Best regards
Georgi

 

[Andy Adcock]

Looks like a Common Whitethroat to me too.

Andy

 

[SJC]

Lesser Whitethroat for me

 

[norwichbirder87]

Eastern Orphean for me.

 

[Andy Adcock]

Classic sylvia then!!!....:-O:-O:-O

Andy

 

[Andrew Whitehouse]

Lesser Whitethroat

 

[Gerdzhikov]

3 species, it will be interesting

 

[norwichbirder87]

Looking at this on a proper monitor, the plumage tones do look much better for Lesser Whitethroat. Bill still looks big though.

 

[PedroNicolau]

Lesser Whitethroat for me as well.

 

[Ighalo is amazing]

Lesser Whitethroat also.

 

[Jane Turner]

Lesser Whitethroat complex for me. Bet it calls with a rattle though

 

[Markus0803]

also Eastern Orphean for me

 

[AllanM]

Eastern Orphean for me. Bill looks not quite right for LW to me?

 

[Gerdzhikov]

Thanks to all

 

[Jane Turner]

Since you saw the bird in the flesh, did it appear as huge as an Orphean Warbler? It strikes me though that there should be something diagnosable. You'd hope that EOW would have big blotches on its undertail wouldn't you?

The bill does look a little long, but I think that mark on face helps with this

 

[Jane Turner]

Apparently the utcs isn't as reliable as I thought - its not uncommon for EOW to have rather plain ones. I've cleared up the mystery birds face blemish - it doesn't look so large billed, and if you look at the relative size of the eye to the bill v a very LW like EOW left and a LW right, it does look more like the latter

 

[BirdingRob]

Lesser whitethroat for me. The eye ring pattern is a good fit and there is the vaguest hint of a lighter supercilium which lesser whitethroat can show with younger birds.

Rob

 

[Iraq Babbler]

With such relatively long, straight column, thick based, greyidh bill and utc. I'm in the EOW party.

Omar

 

[Jane Turner]

The wings look ever so short though - I'm still seeing L.White

 

[Jeff Hopkins]

Lesser whitethroat for me.