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    Spotted Flycatcher ?

    Hello, its a Phylloscopus Warbler. Please note pale, not black bill and coloured legs. Appearantly pale legs, largely pale bill (not black) and long pp and face expression makes this a Willow Warbler.
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    Gull ID, Rutland Water Nature Reserve - 30/05/2024

    Hello Benji, do you have more pictures? Anyway, my thoughts from left to right: 3cy LBBG by rounded head and weak bill adult LBBG by rounded head and despite worn primaries I would expect larger white spots in the wingtip in GBBG 2cy GBBG by predominantly white greater coverts and narrow, but...
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    Guess the bird-

    (much more easy than the gulls. Sorry no offense you know) Skylark?
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    pipit - but which one?

    Hello Michal, do you have more pictures? With its four primaries sticking out, it gives a pipit/lark vibe for me too. Proportions and jizz looks good for Meadow/Tree Pipit ( is a Water Pipit possible? *) and not so good for Tawny Pipit (with the dainty, chiffchaff like proportions, skipping...
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    Hi im wendy and was wondering if anyone could help me find out what this bird is ,its not a brilliant pic ,they are in pears and was wondering

    Hello Wendy, welcome to Birdforum! They are Jays. Please note pastell-brown body, black moustache and unique pattern of black and white and blueish (barred) patch on the wing. All this resulting in a unique colouration among european birds.
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    Thekla's or Crested Lark, 29.05.23, Málaga province (Spain)

    Hello Paul, I hope this is understandable (if not non-native speaker the excuse) and helpful: according to literature, both species are divided into several subspecies and/or species. They differ in ID features and one feature that works in one area doesnt apply for other ssp/species (because...
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    Milwaukee, WI, USA bird ID

    Hello, That's a juvenile Starling. Bill is still growing, therefore a little bit stubby and with a blunt tip ( they get a longer spikes bill when fully grown), but everything else is good for this species, including the triangular black loral patch, whitish chin on a quite uniform brownish bird...
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    Warbler: Phylloscopus or Hippolais? Ibiza - Spain

    Hello, thanks for correction! yes I was biased by location? PP is quite long indeed, and the tail proportions are better for Icterine too (against what I wrote earlier, biased?) I have posted this here before?Orpheusspötter und Gelbspötter excellent blog by Johannes Honold and Ralph Martin
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    Melanistic Female Pheasant? Somerset, U.K.

    Hello, with thanks to Bewick, Butty and Pat and all once more Norwich, Norfolk, UK Yes its a melanistic Pheasant for me too. Thats how I have seen a very few in the wild and in zoos/parks. Please note the right brownish wash to some parts in the upperparts, stripes in the paler flanks and lack...
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    Larus gull in north-eastern France

    Hello Thibaut, excellent, thanks so much! Can you provide a link to the facebook post, so that non-members like me can see it? Thanks!
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    Lesser black-backed gull?

    Hello, yes agree with you Michal: can a 2cy "Caspian Gull" with such uniform dark axillaries, broad blackish tailband (nearly covering the entire tail, many 2cy Gulls in NE-Germany have a narrower, more "tailbandish" one)) and large, "heart-barred" shaped dark centers to the scapulars still...
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    Song thrush's call?

    Hello, once more the usual caveats: Song Thrush can have a similar call and on my device the call seems thin and fluent, not sharp and exploding enough. Therefore favouring Song Thrush Please compare XC882390 Song Thrush (Turdus philomelos) and I am still searching for answers. Thanks!
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    Help Needed with Wild Fledgling House Sparrow

    Hello Vianca, thanks for joining us to help this little Sparrow. Your comment shows that you certainly know what to do better than I can. Thanks! So only in brackets: (Sparrows regular nest in holes where no nest is sticking out. Mage you can locate this by the chirping youngs and the adults...
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    Various at Eyebrook Res, South Leicestershire, UK

    Hello again, the Plover is really difficult for me. Do you have more pictures? Most adult Little Ringed Plovers have a bold yellow eye-ring, but a very few have a much weaker one. And I think I can just make this out, just within varation. Regarding the shape of the black mask: Your bird is...
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    Various at Eyebrook Res, South Leicestershire, UK

    Hello, yes the first is a Linet for me too. The colouration is spot on=enough for confident ID of a common species The other waders are Sanderlings imo. Right greyish, bold patterned upperparts and pure White bellt. Dunlin (shape, and Black belly) and Cormorant (yellow reaches and encircles...
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