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Which Songbird? (1 Viewer)

hans-b

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Location: Pylos / Peloponnes / Greece, 24.10.2019
If it is not possible to identify the species the genus would also be helpful.

Thanks for your help
Hans

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Hans, do you have another photo showing the bill from a diffent angle? So far I stick with Corn Bunting...
 
Giving this a little more thought - Several things may be effecting photo impression but also actuality of bill size imo:

- It seems that the top of the birds crown is slightly tilted towards the camera so the view of the bill is not the full cross sectional shape.(giving an impression of a shallow lower mandible perhaps and distortion of gape line?)
- The bird is in completely fresh plumage so facial/nasal feathering will alter the impression of the proximal profile of the bill cf to say a summer or late winter individual
- There is of course dimorphic differences in overall size - this could be a small female (lots of photographic references are of singing males which for obvious reasons would be a lot more visible)
- finally, Southern European populations of are apparently smaller than those further North (I didn’t know this!)
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1080/03078698.2005.9674325

Apart from impressions of bill, the plumage and otherwise still looks like CB imo.
 
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