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    Sykes`s Warbler ?

    Brian, Correct, this is not an every day species for Turkey. So I respect experience. In 2021 and 2022 I did 3 weeks trips for photographing these warblers. I only found one, probably two skyke’s together with tens of eastern oliveceaus warblers. In this photo the length of the tail looks...
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    Sykes`s Warbler ?

    If “hidden” means “shoter”, it fits I. rama since in this species P2 is shorter than P7. Actually the bill is wider at base in rama and close to elaeica in length. There are several collected samples of eastern oliveceaus warbler from eastern turkey, which belongs to elaeica and tamariceti...
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    An American vagrant?

    Hi, May be so.. since the area is highly industrial. Interesting bird.
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    An American vagrant?

    How about concentration on anatomical-topographical fetures, instead of only colors? For example; the midle toe (including nail) seems about same size of the tarsus and a bit longer than bill.. (I am not sure nail counts or not) and hind toe seems a bit longer for a little stint (5-7 mm instead...
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    An American vagrant?

    Scapular patterns of the stint species. Which one is the same with this bird?
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    An American vagrant?

    I use nikon z9+600mmtcvrs nikkor. This combination allways some boost vibrancy and saturation But never change the colors. If there is yellow on the legs, it is there. Black never changes yellow or something else..
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    An American vagrant?

    I took this picture on April 2023 in Antalya-Turkey. Tertials of the bird, seems to exeed the tail (as you may know tail should be longer than wing feathers in Temminck’s). Middle toe is about the same length (or longer?) of the bill. Scapular fringes are whitish. Lore length is about half...
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    Spotted or Common Sandpiper?

    Thanks for the article. Do you think this picture where you can see the upperwing clearly, complies with the moulting strategy you suggest? I see on the left wing, there are two missing flight feathers.
  9. M

    Spotted or Common Sandpiper?

    But the end result is the same. It is agreeable that the bird is an adult but not a juvenile. The moulting of the feathers in autumn results in freshness of the plumage😀
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    Spotted or Common Sandpiper?

    Thanks Daniel, I do not try the bird to recognize as spotted or not. But I catch a good example to discuss a well known species. That is why I am sharing details that may be helpful to detailed view including me. Actually there are enough information about generally unrecognized subspecies...
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    Spotted or Common Sandpiper?

    Have you considered A. macularia rava? Formerly common and spotted sandpipers were conspesific. Then divided to two species. After that some autors divide A. macularia as nominate and A. m. rava. But said that differences are minimal, for that reason it is monotipic.. but some autors still...
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    Spotted or Common Sandpiper?

    A hybrid? A few years ago there was a lesser flamingo in Turkey. Her juvenile was showing both P. ruber & P minor. If we didn’t see the P. minor, the young bird would stay as a suspicious bird. Here is a footage of them on my instagram account:
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    Spotted or Common Sandpiper?

    Thank you very much for your valuable comments friends. Today I went to same area and found same bird. I took some upper and underwing photos With my canon R3+800mmf11.
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    Spotted or Common Sandpiper?

    I don’t know on which device are you lookin on my pictures, but I see two toned bill on my 12.9 inch Ipad..,I can see (slightly) longer projection since I have circa 20 minutes video of this bird. On some scenes tail projection visible. I took these pictures with my nikon z9+nikon z600mm f4...
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    Spotted or Common Sandpiper?

    The problem is; there are different illustrations and details for the american vagrant Such that according to owned guidebook anyone can judge this species differently. I can see two toned bill, slightly longer tail (tail projection), drab orange legs and especially bolder rear supercilium (a...
  16. M

    Spotted or Common Sandpiper?

    As seen on the guidebook, legg color is not the concrete criteria…
  17. M

    Spotted or Common Sandpiper?

    Anyone experienced on behavior of these two species (Feeding, walking differences?)
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    Spotted or Common Sandpiper?

  19. M

    Spotted or Common Sandpiper?

    As raw they are too large. But I will upload crop the bird and saved jpegs without editing..
  20. M

    Spotted or Common Sandpiper?

    Please note that I edited on photoshop hdr toning and auto color for boosting details.
  21. M

    Spotted or Common Sandpiper?

    Agree the color criteria but please consider that, the less than ideal lighting conditions. Also it was recorded in 2021 in Göksu Delta: https://www.trakus.org/kods_bird/uye/?fsx=2fsdl15@d&idx=295130
  22. M

    Spotted or Common Sandpiper?

    I don’t think so… because I took video while the bird Was preening and the short tail was clearly there..
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    Spotted or Common Sandpiper?

    Hi, I took these photos yesterday on Dalaman Airport-Muğa-Turkey. No tail projetion, no notches on tertials, some very faint washes on rear flanks etc. suggest me a Spotted Sandpiper. Opinions please. Thanks.
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    Oriental Skylark or…?

    The wing of a male oriental lark-A. gulgula measured 98.5 mm in Kazakhistan (A. g. incospicua?): Oriental Lark (Alauda gulgula). Birds of Kazakhstan. and the wing lenght of a female eurasian skylark (A. a. armenicus) is 110.1mm (108-112mm n=6) (Birds of Western Palearctic), also Two...
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    Oriental Skylark or…?

    Thank you very much for your valuable comments Graham, I think the pp is too short for a typical eurasian skylark. As far as I know, the length of pp beyond tertials is an ID criteria instead of number of exposing tips of primaries (?) Agree, bill is too short for oriental skylark. When we...
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