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  1. Armand

    Tern sp., Guangxi, China

    with the caveat they're not the clearest of pics im ever gonna see of a tern (no offense :p) typically i'd expect to see a paler looking tern with regard to the upperparts grey with a stronger darkish wedge on the leading edge of the primaries (more like sandwich tern than common tern style if...
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    Tern sp., Guangxi, China

    no idea of the region but as noted above, bill looks good for Common Tern, as does dark shafts through the primaries (timing also in keeping for the extent of this, ie later in the year you'd expect more), diffuse dark trailing edge to underwing primaries, longish tail, white leading edge to...
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    Bee-Eaters on UK telly programme

    i know some years ago (i've no idea now days) that divers were cited as the most common bird calls used in movies, pretty much every horror movie used them
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    Slotted secondary feathers

    as mentioned earlier in the thread, it sounds like moult or damaged feather replacement, and the fact it was noted across multiple birds is highly suggestive of birds (possibly of similar age) in moult with regard to the species involved, we can't comment on that without pictures but the...
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    Slotted secondary feathers

    something like this? looks battered to hell here but from a distance/mid distance the moult will typically look less harsh and more 'uniform', with the notches being what stands out
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    Feather found in Bedfordshire, UK

    wow, what an incredible site, thanks for that, immediate bookmark quality
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    Achrocephalus or Sylvia borin?

    well the vid kills any argument against an acro for me, even has a nice warm rusty rump, reed warbler style quick look in literature gives a range of leg colours of grey-brown to blue-grey for Reed Warbler... (fwiw, cites marsh warbler as pale straw to greyish; Birds of Britain - Hume et al 2nd ed)
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    Bird- Slovakia

    colouration of the upperparts (and generally) + strength of head streaking fits more yellowhammer than greenfinch for me but it's clearly not written in stone, is the colouration even reliable and not leaf casting colours? checking the bill again - besides heftiness, shape actually is more in...
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    Black Vulture? (location inside a plane's cockpit, otherwise unknown; mildly gruesome)

    chicken :ROFLMAO:, that made me chuckle, i had visions of angered rustic types throwing their largest chickens at low flying planes
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    Bird- Slovakia

    i have no confidence in non birder's evaluations and like alexander suggests above, one saying 'red on chest' wouldn't put me off yellowhammer as i can see the chest streaking being interpretated that way (without further inquiry of the observer) i do agree on the bill looking too heavy and...
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    Bird- Slovakia

    fledgling yellowhammer was my first thought everything on view appears to fit
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    Barrow's or Common Goldeneye? Mývatn, Iceland

    i agree, even if it is 'real' and possibly a useful 'query' feature, it wouldn't be of use at long range for sure on my patch common goldeneye is common through winter and spring and in good light the yellow eye is often striking, so maybe at mid range and closer in the right light the green...
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    Barrow's or Common Goldeneye? Mývatn, Iceland

    ah crap, yes you are correct in that i didn't make it clear at all in my original post that i was refering to eye colour, my bad so to reiterate, to my eye, in photos female Barrow's appear to have a pale/insipid green hue/element to their eye colour in contrast to female Common Goldeneye that...
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    Barrow's or Common Goldeneye? Mývatn, Iceland

    yes, but as i stated - in photos, so is it an artifact of pics or there in the field? was my question it's easy to see online, just pull up pages of clearly female barrow's and clearly female common and compare, it's pretty consistent (tho there are outliers) barrow's goldeneye female at...
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    Barrow's or Common Goldeneye? Mývatn, Iceland

    more of an aside than anything else... after reading Brian's comment regarding bill colour/nostril feature, i've been trawling a ton of pics of both common and barrow's goldeneye females for comparisons/variations and have by chance noticed something i dont recall being present in literature...
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