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  1. Valéry Schollaert

    Saskatchewan, Canada - Thrush (gray cheeked, hermit, or Swanson's)

    agreed
  2. Valéry Schollaert

    please identify my birds in sri lanka 03

    I think the iora is the Common and not White-tailed.
  3. Valéry Schollaert

    Hawk in Sayulita, Mexico

    Great. Here are some of my pics of this species. The last photo before the crab-hunting serie show an immature bird in flight and the tail length is thus easy to estimate.
  4. Valéry Schollaert

    Lark Morocco

    It is not the same bird, I have just put it to show how the Thekla's bill is. It didn't display, just singing, perched.
  5. Valéry Schollaert

    Lark Morocco

    I have put him in "ignore" for several months, but it makes no difference. He comments all my posts, he is quoted by others and thus I read his comments in all case. I would need a "block" like in Facebook, to hide my post from him, but it seem impossible here. Several members have gone from BF...
  6. Valéry Schollaert

    Hawk in Sayulita, Mexico

    Well, for your record I live in Mexico, and I see plenty of them. It is not your case. Its tail is perfectly matching Common Black-Hawk. Your comment makes us losing time.
  7. Valéry Schollaert

    Lark Morocco

    you can, and the admin can remove my post again. I happened 4 or 5 times. I ignored Butty, I asked him no to comment my post, but nothing to do : he keeps harrassing me. I even consider to leave BF to get rid of thid "pain in the...". It is still an option.
  8. Valéry Schollaert

    Lark Morocco

    In the field, outer-tailed feathers looked white ; on the pic, whitish. Its song was that of a Skylark (imitation I guess?); I also wondered about the fairly long pp.
  9. Valéry Schollaert

    Lark Morocco

    I try to convince you to avoid commenting my posts as I asked you several time, in public and in DM. I don't know why you keep hassling me.
  10. Valéry Schollaert

    Hawk in Sayulita, Mexico

    Adult Common Black-Hawk has a short tail, but juvenile is long-tailed. It is a typical immature Common Black-Hawk without doubt.
  11. Valéry Schollaert

    Lark Morocco

    What do you think of the whitish edge of the tail ? Here is a straight bill for a lark, an easy Thekla.
  12. Valéry Schollaert

    Lark Morocco

    for a lark, it is a clearly curved bill, whatever your phone says. Phones, even with AI, have no skill in ornithology. Try to use your own skills ; and if you have none, learn.
  13. Valéry Schollaert

    Yellow legged Gull this time ?

    I can't see details on the photos, but jizz seems to match Caspian IMO.
  14. Valéry Schollaert

    Hawk in Sayulita, Mexico

    Common Black-Hawk IMO
  15. Valéry Schollaert

    Yellow legged Gull this time ?

    In which country is that ?
  16. Valéry Schollaert

    Brabant Netherlands - Wood Lark, not Skylark...?

    Yes, WL, cute bird ! :)
  17. Valéry Schollaert

    Lark Morocco

    Hi all, Yesterday, reaching the Middle Atlas on the way from Merzouga to Ifrane, we found this tame lark on the roadside, at about 1500 ASL. Identification looked obvious, but we took photos as the bird was in close range. Watching the pics, I'm surprised of the moult. If I see well, tertials...
  18. Valéry Schollaert

    Maghreb or Crested Lark ? MOROCCO

    I guided in Morocco from 1992 to 2006, and I always looked for several distinctive taxa such Maghreb Lark, Seebohm's (Atlas) Wheatear, North African (Mourning) Wheatear, North African Buzzard, Atlas Flyctacher, African Blue Tit and more as if they were split. Most of them have been split since...
  19. Valéry Schollaert

    Maghreb or Crested Lark ? MOROCCO

    Here is a typical Maghreb Lark in its range, in Merzouga (Morocco). Taken on the 15th of May 2024.
  20. Valéry Schollaert

    Maghreb or Crested Lark ? MOROCCO

    bump... no taker ?
  21. Valéry Schollaert

    Maghreb or Crested Lark ? MOROCCO

    Hi all, I've seen this Crested Lark in Marrakech last week. I think it is only the range of Crested Lark but the bill is so long that I've a doubt. What do you think and are you aware of any records of Maghreb Lark north of the High-Atlas mountains ? THANKS.
  22. Valéry Schollaert

    Black Kite??? Portugal Algarve

    Black Kite (with capital letters as shown here) indeed. The 6 "fingers" are typical, Red Kite having only 5 "fingers". See comparison here below.
  23. Valéry Schollaert

    Ficedula flycat, today at Marrakesh, Morocco.

    Thank you Graham, I've red these articles before posting. You wrote "extent and shape of white mid wing panel" is matching Pied, but comparing to online photos of Atlas and my experience of the two, I think the opposite. The forehead is the problem for Atlas indeed, the only one, otherwise I...
  24. Valéry Schollaert

    Ficedula flycat, today at Marrakesh, Morocco.

    "Speculigera really should all be on territory now." I've guided dozen of trips in Morocco since 1991, and I used to look for speculigera much before it was split. We found adult males (I considered immatures and females unidentifiable with the current knowledge in the past) in oasis south of...
  25. Valéry Schollaert

    Ficedula flycat, today at Marrakesh, Morocco.

    As the bird appear to be a 2cy, juvenile outer tail feathers can show white, and I wonder if the forehead, typical in adult, can still be used. Very wide wing patch and grey rump were the reasons for which I immediately thought about iberiae or speculigera.
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