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  1. John Cantelo

    Spanish birds; Seville and Ronda

    Perhaps I'm over cautious, but I hesitate to judge things like paleness from a photo since over/under exposure and background colour can be a significant factor. As for habitat, like Simon, I tend to find Thekla more often on rockier ground, but for me the key thing is height above sea level...
  2. John Cantelo

    Spanish birds; Seville and Ronda

    Thanks Simon, I was hoping you'd post this here!
  3. John Cantelo

    Spanish birds; Seville and Ronda

    My feelings exactly - it does look typical Thekla habiat (and atypical for Crested). The admittedly very blurry 'full frontal' photo suggests chest streaking more in keeping with this species too. However in the rear view shot the crest looks, to me at least, more 'Crested-like' than Thekla...
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