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    Linnet or Twite -- West Mongolia

    Hi all, A young 1cy Linnet/twite from West Mongolia september 2019. Only picture I got unfortunately It must be a twite, but feel like I can't rule out Linnet. Let me hear what you think. Thanks
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    Snipe and Dove from Mongolia

    I kind of still have mixed fellings of this snipe. IIf all the outher pin-tailed feathers are close together, could they be creating that white feeling that this snipe is showing. Look at this example of a pin-tailed: ML484860771 - Pin-tailed Snipe - Macaulay Library -- I assume that because my...
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    Snipe and Dove from Mongolia

    Hmm. I have tried sharpening the photo of the tail a bit. I feel it's very hard to get a feeling of the shape and width of the outher onces, seems like they are all together creating that white flash.
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    Snipe and Dove from Mongolia

    And Jack Snipe is pretty rare in west Mongolia with 2 confirmed records
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    Snipe and Dove from Mongolia

    Tail looks pretty similar to this individual: ML205764881 - Hill Pigeon - Macaulay Library. Maybe the greish uppertail is not that visible on closed wings and tail?
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    Snipe and Dove from Mongolia

    Hi all, I have found a few bird photos in the archives from a birding trip to Mongolia in autumn 2019. Will apprecaite some second opinions on these 2 birds. Photo 180722971: Swinhoe vs Pintailed Snipe. I identified it as a Swinhoe's back in the days, but I'm unsure if you really can tell from...
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    Swinhoe vs Pin-tailed Snipe

    Hi all, Hope to get some help with a few difficult snipes. 2 different individuals seen in western Mongolia, the one close to landing is spreading the tail a lot so might have something useful there. I feel like it's a swinhoe's, but can a pin-tail be ruled out? Just not the sharpest photo. Is...
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    Mongolia -- Ortolan vs Grey-necked Bunting

    Hi all, Got a few photos of some Ortolan/ Grey-necked Buntings from august/september in Khovd, Western Mongolia. Now looking back at it, I get a bit confused on some of them. I have attached a few of them, I feel all these fit Ortolan best except photo 180900441, it could be a female...
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    Needletail in Mongolia?

    Hi, I had this birds migrating east in west Mongolia around Khovd for 4 years ago in September. It was flying extremly fast and direct, and pretty far away (1-2km?). First seen in scope, before shooting a few distant shots. This was what I got before it disapeared. I felt myself that it was a...
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    Auk/murrelet from California 2nd of april

    Hi, This very darkish auklet/murre seen today at Monterey. Appeared slightly smaller than the Murre's it was flying with but not by much. Darker upperparts, headprofile, blackish underwing and black on chest is different than the murre's. Rhinoceros Auklet came to my mind first but hard to...
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    Dowitcher show in texas

    Hi, 11 different dowitchers from today in Freeport just south of Houston. I Got photos of flocks flying and it is a mixed show with both species. Anyone knows if it is possible to identify them in this plumage just before turning into breeding plumage without flight photo? I named the photos...
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    Eastern v Upland Buzzard Mongolia 2019

    2 individuals from 22 august 2019 in Ullanbaator. Buzzard 1 identified as Upland, and buzzard 2 identified as Eastern. But both have been in the back of my head since, I can't really be certain of an ID. Is it possible to use any plumage features, or is it only by the junky jizz of an upland you...
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    Unknown birds from Gambia 2

    Thanks for reply. The tern identification made me wonder, if these I identified as West African Crested Tern might not be as well. Same day same location.
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    Unknown birds from Gambia 2

    I found a folder more with a few more unidentified photos from a trip too the Gambia in February 2019. Any opinions on some of them will be a huge help, thanks. I'm trying to give me feeling about the photos under here: Photo 1: Indigobird? I guess it has to be village, but leg colour seems odd...
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    Starlings from Gambia

    Here is 8 different Lesser vs Greater blue-eared starlings from Gambia February 2019. I was mainly using eye-color back then to separate them, which I have now found out was pretty useless. After looking at hundreds of photos, I can't figure out if it's even possible to separate them without...
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    • blue-eared starling lamprotornis gambia greater blue-eared starling lesser blue-eared starling.
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    • Forum: Bird Identification Q&A
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    A few unknown birds from Gambia

    Photos are not great I know, and we can't see all feather details on these birds, but anyhow I really starts believing these to be Northern Red Bishops. I found a photo from the next day at the same exact location of some bishops in the background of a quela, I cropped the photo a lot but I...
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    A few unknown birds from Gambia

    What is this suppose to mean? Often photos dosen't have to be perfect to be helpful for an identification. If you have an opinion on the Swallow and Bishop -- bring it on.
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    A few unknown birds from Gambia

    Regarding the bishop, I checked a lot of photos, and I can see what you mean with buffish fringes on the outer web of primaries. I lighted the photo up a lot, and it seems it's only the outer 1 maybe 2 feathers being all black. Comparing it to example this black-winged: ML313870731 Black-winged...
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    A few unknown birds from Gambia

    Very interesting answer. I didn't come across this swallow at all, it isn't a part of the Gambia and Senegal bird guide book. I have tried brighting up the photo a lot. It shows whitish feathers on mantle, but red-rumped can also show that. Seems to have some reddish around the eye, but can't...
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    A few unknown birds from Gambia

    The 621 you call a black-winged. The photo is taken just before sunset, maybe that is giving it more darkish tones. I just find the eyebrow, bill size, breast pattern, underneath color odd for a such. See this photo for a black-winged: ML427709901 Black-winged Bishop Macaulay Library and compare...
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    A few unknown birds from Gambia

    Hi, a have for quite a while had problems with a few identifications from a trip in February 2019 to Gambia. Hope you can brighten some lights on some of them. Photo 1: Assume this to be a Pink-backed Pelican. Photo 2 and 3: I feel this has to be a Wahlberg's Eagle, but somehow the jizz gives...
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    • africa bishop cisticola exclamatory paradise whydah gambia martin pelican swallow wahlberg's eagle
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    • Forum: Bird Identification Q&A
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    Black vs Yellow billed Kite

    How fast does Yellow-billed kite develop a full yellow bill? These 3 black kite types photographed in the Gambia in feb 2019. With lack of any greyish tinge on head, and the bottom right kite having only faint blackish bill I assume these to be 1st winter Yellow-billed kites? Please correct me...
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    A few unknown birds from South Africa

    Recording to the sasol book and Cornell birds of the world it should be a female of the nominate subspecies, which is the only ssp. that occur in South Africa. See photo here of a pair of African Firefinch: ML204754121 African Firefinch Macaulay Library and African Bird Club . The first photo...
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    A few unknown birds from South Africa

    Just to be sure we understand each other. It is 2 different individuals of firefinch. First individual on photo 1 and 2, and a second individual on photo 3. Regarding photo 3, I thought a nominate female African Firefinch will be more greyish on head and underparts stronger reddish like this...
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    A few unknown birds from South Africa

    1. and 2. is the same individual. I saw the bird before taking photos, and the firefinch showed darkish bill making it being either African or Jameson's. And as you are pointing out, that is the bill. The bird is facing left but the body right, its about to fly left. A bit of an akward position...
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