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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 Alexander Yes, you are right, it is really depending on the angle... Thank you very much for your answer! All the best Beniamino
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    Kiruna, N Sweden - Parrot Crossbill? Video + pictures

    Just for an update: on Facebook forum, it would appear that the consensus is for Parrot Crossbill. In a different occasion, another individual (pictures and sound):
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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

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    Crested Terns in Senegal, March 2022

    Thanks for the answer! I am getting more and more sure about the ones in pictures 3-4, 6. On the other hand, I agree with you that while the one in picture 5 looks a bit off (potentially also smaller size? plus all the things you noticed) I remain very cautious because it is only one grainy...
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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

    Thanks a lot everyone for your replies! I will keep looking into it - maybe try work the pictures a bit! - if it is indeed a White-backed Vulture, it sure does its best to mimic a Griffon plumage! However, in a Facebook group of Senegal and Gambia birding the general consensus is also veering...
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    Question for vulture experts: Gyps in flight Senegal March

    Hey Butty, thanks for the reply! Yeah, my doubts might be founded... However, I did not judge the size as an absolute, but relative to three Ruppell's Griffons in the same kettle (White-backed is smaller than Rüppell, which is smaller than Eurasian Griffon), so while not definitive, it was an...
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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

    Dear Deb and Andy Thank you very much for your resolutive opinions! And sorry for not answering sooner, I was in the middle of moving house. In the meantime I also got answers from a Sri Lanka Field Ornithology group and they all agree with you, it is a Shikra. I especially appreciate the...
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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

    Thank you very much Andy, Kevin and Steve! Sorry for not replying sooner, I did not get alerted of the notifications somehow! I did contact the guide you mentioned (Uthai Cheummarung, not Treesucon) and his prices were reasonable (150 euros per entire day). He also said that he can more or...
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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?)

    Thanks RKJ, I really appreciate the answer! I think that for what concern hybrids, as it is not easy to give a definite opinion, folks might prefer to wait up. But again, thanks!
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    Multiple Washington State (US) ID problems (Red-breasted Sapsucker hybrid?)

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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

    Just to add to the discussion: in an Italian facebook group more or less there is a 40-60 split between serin and citril finch. They also caution not to take into consideration altitude. For citril finch, it has been said (if I am not mistaken): brownish greater coverts with clear light edge...
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    Finch in Italian Alps ID

    Exactly. For what concerns the bill of the other bird, I would focus on pictures 4 (the closest one) of the first set and the picture 4 (the one one the flowers) of the second set. In these pictures, the bill is fairly prominent and does not look that small to me! However, I also found these...
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    Finch in Italian Alps ID

    That one picture is, however, the only one from a different individual, that I did not include in the original post because I thought at the beginning that it was actually a serin (a bird I am familiar with). It was taken the day before in a different location (Rifugio Muzio). Now, after...
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    Finch in Italian Alps ID

    Hi! thank everyone for their useful opinions! Yes, a serin at that altitude would be really weird - while on the other hand citril finches have been recorded in the park a bit below (even if rarely). Moreover, it definitely is not an adult serin, and a juvenile would have much less yellow, I...
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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! Thank you very much for your imputs! So, Common has going: - to-the-tail outer primaries - the white patch is very much covered by the tertials when the bird is resting - "pointy" ends of the primaries (see here...
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    Nighthawk in Gamboa, Panama (with pictures)

    Thanks, do you think? To me they appeared slightly longer than the tail in the first two pictures, and on par with the tail (or even a fraction shorter) in the other! On my observations notebook of the day I wrote that they were either on par or a teeny bit shorter, but maybe it was due to how...
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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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