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    Stonechat today, Fife, Scotland

    Hello Graham, as you surely know, confident identification of eastern forms of Stonechats needs pictures of the underwing and tail and rump. And I think, that the appearant large white neck patch is enhanced by streched neck? All I can add here is a link to an interesting and helpful thread...
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    Juvenile bird - Stonechat? Whinchat?

    Hello Henry, yes its a juvenile Stonechat for me too. The extensive yellow bill gape, the clouded patterned feathers on the breast and the moddled ear-coverts are juvenile feathers/traits, while some new deep orange feathers on the belly are growing first winter/technically adult feathers...
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    Western Yellow Wagtail from northe east of France

    Hello again, yes different ssp mix, and rarer ssp. regular (at least) join other Yellow Wagtails on migration/stop over sites. Especially when rich food supply is available like it was at your observation.
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    Undisclosed, Forest of Dean, UK

    Hello Andy, thanks! My experience is the following: I see displaying pairs each year and from memory hear them calling on this (regular? Iam not so sure anymore. But from memory not very/extremly rare). And I heard them in the vicinity of a breeding place during roughly late june/july/august...
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    Western Yellow Wagtail from northe east of France

    Hello JR, greyish nape (enhanced by backlit situation surely?) makes this a thunbergi for me. Feldegg should show a pure black nape, well demarcated from the deep mossygreen back. (despite some appearantly streaks to the breast?) There is an excellent paper about this by Christian Wegst, but...
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    Undisclosed, Forest of Dean, UK

    Hello Daniel, thanks! When you (tentavely) identified it as Golden Oriole in the field, than it was surely one. And thanks to all for correction! I will hear it tomorrow and at the weekend on other devises. I hear so many Golden Orioles every year and also very few HB each year. No offense you...
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    Undisclosed, Forest of Dean, UK

    Hello Daniel, with the usual caveats (I am still looking for general aspects and comments about this. Anyone? Thanks!) Yes it can be a Gull or a mimicking Jay, but my instant gut feeling was Honey Buzzard (this would fit your precaution in reveiling exact location?).
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    Name a Bird You've Photographed

    3503 Pine Bunting (Ludwigsburg, SW-Germany, I have posted this picture before here in another thread)
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    UK bird call identification.

    Hello, hopefully interesting reading to this call Do the rain calls of Chaffinches indicate rain? - Journal of Ornithology I did when I recently found this paper
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    Bird

    Hello, welcome to Birdforum! As there is no european species that matches your description, maybe an leucistic Blackbird with some white plumage parts? They come in all sorts of pattern, see for example here Leuzismus bei Amsel
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    Gull ID Sussex

    Hello, interesting bird=a Gull tfs! And before it get buried, my thoughts I agree with you, with no black on p5 a Herring Gull surely has to be considered yes, according to the excellent BB paper and other sources dark eyed Herring Gulls are regular but this is still puzzling me: after...
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    Norwich, Norfolk, UK

    Hello Bewick, wow thanks for correction! I have seen so many Common Pheasants over the years, including aberrant and melanistic ones, but I cant remember one like this with thin engraved, ornate white and rusty lines .
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    Norwich, Norfolk, UK

    Hello Justin, its one of the Pheasants, please note the right shape, including the bill and a long tail. Its a dark pigmented = melanistic bird. This and my little experience with all possible species (so many to be considered here imo) makes confident ID hard for me. It doesnt look like a...
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    Warbler ?

    Hello, drab brownish hues with an olive tinge and just detectable yellow ones at the wingbend and the short undertail coverts makes this a Phylloscopus warbler for me. And with blackish legs, a stubby pp and drab hues this is one of the Common Chiffchaff 'form" imo.
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    Guess the bird-

    Common Nightingale?
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    another mixed gull

    Hello Michal, here you can apply the shape of the black tailband, because its a 1st cycle bird. I see one of uniform wide, favouring Caspian Gull. More, your bird have nearly unmarked whitish axillaries, quite a few YLG have a more patterned underwing. And striped pattern of upperwing, with...
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    hello, birders, I took a bird with some strange features. A hybrid of Motacilla alba with Motacilla cinerea or a strange Motacilla cinerea only?

    Hello, welcome to Birdforum! Thanks for sharing this interesting bird! I havent experience with wagtails from Taiwan (presuming your bird is from there?). (With black legs and such a broad supercilium it is not a pure Grey Wagtail completly lacking yellow, except in the greater coverts)...
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    Gull ID please, Cambridgeshire

    Hello Colin, maybe its better to post this in the ID forum? And do you have more pictures? Preferably showing an open wing? I see why you both picked this candiadate, and when you ID the bird in the field as a YLG than this is a strong point you know, but as you asked my thoughts: many 2nd...
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    UK Gulls

    Hello, with a slight variation in mantle shade in large Gulls (and much more you know), I cant see a confident YLG among your birds. Please note, that many YLG are closer to a Herring Gull than to an average LBBG in mantle shade. Compare to this adult YLG (Schwetzinger Wiesen, SW-Germany...
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    Unknown raptor Les Alpilles (France, Mediterranean) on May 3th, 2024

    Hello Frank, you know I trust original observers much more than such pictures, but if forced in quiz modus, I would opt for a Black Kite. What was your impression in the field? And I wait for more comments!
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    Great Tit and Blue Tit ?

    Hello, welcome to Birdforum! Great Tits with reduced or (nearly) absent yellow tones are quite regular, having a pale cream or rarer greyish belly then. But Great Tits totally lacking yellow hues like your bird are rare. Here is one with reduced yellow (Ziesar, NE-Germany, 30.11.2022) I...
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    Loon? Dunes City, Oregon Coast (Siltcoos River Estuary)

    Hello, yes its a Red throated Loon. Please note slender uptilted bill and white face with an isolated eye
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    Guess the bird-

    Whinchat?
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    Yellow legged Gull ?

    Hello, thanks Harry! Please note, that my part is only the in depth comment, while Lou is the one for in depth comments and confident correct ID. Please note iirc the difference in tail-band is (mostly?)for 1st cycle birds. Such a narrow tail band is regular in 2nd cycle Caspian Gulls (or the...
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    Pipit ID Scotland

    Hello, I agree with Butty. The left bird is a confident Tree Pipit for me. Very good head pattern, smooth warm coloration, short pinkish hind claw (contrasting dark in many (?) Meadow Pipits), and flank streaking finer than breast streaking (yes I agree with you Butty). Right bird looks also...
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