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    Kenya Endemics tour, August 2024 - looking for 1-3 companions!

    Hi everyone! I will be in Kenya for work in August 2024, my first time in the country, and I am very keen to spend some extra time there (max 14 days) to see as many endemics/specialties as possible. I have been drooling over this tour (Kenya Endemics Birding Tour: Cisticola- Birding & Nature...
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    Kiruna, N Sweden - Parrot Crossbill? Video + pictures

    Dear Birdforum users I saw a flock of these birds outside my camp in the general vicinity of Kiruna (I was close to Aptasvare NR), deep in Swedish Lapland, on the 7th of August 2022. Given the flat forehead, deep "bulging" bill, and generally bull-headed appearance, I would call these Parrot...
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    Crested Terns in Senegal, March 2022

    Dear Birdforum users, Here are some pictures taken in the Saloum Delta in March 2022. There are four terns on a mud bank. I was passing with a boat and I knew these birds could be difficult to ID, so I tried to snap as many pictures as I could while also observing them. At the time my first...
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    Question for vulture experts: Gyps in flight Senegal March

    Dear Birdforum users Looking back at the pictures I took, I found these two of the same vulture, taken in the Diourbel region (Senegal) on the 22nd of March. The three possible species are Rüppell's, Eurasian Griffon and White-backed Vulture. At the time I put White-backed Vulture, and both me...
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    Shikra or Besra Sri Lanka 2012

    Hi everyone! So, due to the absence of international travel I sifted among old pictures and I found some birds from a Sri Lanka trip in august 2012 that I think me and the guide might have misidentified. First up is a classic problem. We identified this bird as juvenile Besra, due to the...
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    Northern Thailand 28th March - 04th April 2020

    Hi everyone! My name is Beniamino Tuliozi, a birder from Italy. I am organizing a birding trip in Thailand lasting roughly three weeks, and part of this trip would be in the northern part. As you all know from Chiang Mai some great destinations can be reached with a car (Doi Inthanon, Doi...
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    Multiple Washington State (US) ID problems (Red-breasted Sapsucker hybrid?)

    Hi everyone. A couple of months ago I went to Washington State (last three days of July, first week of August) and I birded in the western part of the state. There were a few birds that I managed to take pictures of and identify thanks to those, but now I am not 100% sure of them. First up...
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    Finch in Italian Alps ID

    Hi everyone A couple of days ago (18/08/18) I ran into this small finch at 2500 meters above sea level, in the western part of the Italian Alps (colle del Nivolet, Parco Nazionale del Gran Paradiso). The environment was alpine meadows with rock escarpments, close to a mountain chalet. I am...
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    Nighthawk in Gamboa, Panama (with pictures)

    Hi everybody! On the 15th of April 2016 while I was going to work I was able to snap a few pictures of a bird that landed on a tree beside the road in Gamboa town (on the other side of the road there were the train tracks and the Panama Canal). It was early morning so the light was not great...
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