Last few passerines, Samarkand Uzbekistan (1 Viewer)

[rylirk]

1. Pied Wheatears?
2. Pied Wheatears?
3. Northern Wheatear?
4. Siberan Stonechat
5. Almost certainly just a rook or carrion crow or similar but I can't make heads or tails of this corvid
6. Pied Wheatear
7. Almost certainly not IDable but thought I'd give it a shot. On the road between Bukhara and Samarkand; there were many of these perched on wires along the road but it was almost impossible to photograph them from a moving bus. Behaved like finches; I think desert finch would be the expected sp. there but I think this awful photo is at least enough to rule that out?

 

[Alexander Stöhr]

Hello,

with a grateful big thank you to all who commented in the other recent birds from you!:
the Corvid is a Jackdaw IMO. Plesse note the right shape, including rounded wings. And pale nape is gold too, and can I See the right white collar for the local ssp?

The third looks like a Northern Wheatear to me, but you know my usual and often right hesitation= big thanks again!

 

[rylirk]

Any ideas on the others ?

 

[lou salomon]

IDs look ok to me. And I agree with Jackdaw (ssp. soemeringi), but can't help with last one - shot in the dark: Corn Bunting?

 

[ApusApus]

IDs look ok to me. And I agree with Jackdaw (ssp. soemeringi), but can't help with last one - shot in the dark: Corn Bunting?

My initial thought as well!


Shane