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Handbook of Western Palearctic Birds needs your help - An update |
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List of species - email any you have to pop.texel@texel.com For further information and guidelines on how to submit photographs please click here. |
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Calandra Lark - Image requested: autumn bird in fresh plumage. Bimaculated Lark - Images requested: birds in flight from above and below. White-winged Lark - Images requested: fresh ad. and/or 1st-winter birds; bird(s) in flight. Black Lark - Images requested: female on the ground, showing breast pattern well; fresh ad and 1st-winter birds (both sexes are of interest); birds (different age/sex) in flight. (Greater) Short-toed Lark - Images requested: bird from the breeding grounds on Russian steppes and eastwards (C. b. longipennis); variation in autumn birds (showing limited/lack of breast patches; and birds with streaks on breast). Hume's Short-toed Lark - Images requested: autumn/winter birds; also one bird showing breast. Lesser Short-toed Lark - Images requested: C. r. nicolli (Nile delta), heinei (from the core areas in the Near East: S European Russia and lower Volga, and parts of Kazakhstan), C. r. aharonii (C Turkey and probably Syria), C. r. persica (SE Iraq, Iran and east to S Afghanistan), and C. r. leucophaea (allegedly in Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan and Turkmenistan). Indian Sand Lark - Images requested: any good photo from both spring and autumn/winter, and preferably of race adamsi. (Common) Skylark - Images requested: perched, some variation. Horned Lark [Shorelark] - Images requested: Alpestris group E. a. flava (birds from N Europe in autumn/winter plumage, 1stWs are especially needed; we have one but need more to choose from); E. a. brandti (Siberia, Central Asia and east to Mongolia: male and female much wanted); Penicillata group, the so-called Levant Horned Lark (e.g. E. a. balcanica of SE Europe, E. a. bicornis of Lebanon and Syria/N Israel). Sharp and useful photographs of either breeding male and female or fresh autumn birds are welcome, even of subspecies not mentioned above - we are always looking to improve our coverage. Temminck's Lark - Image requested: juvenile. Plain Martin [Brown-throated Sand Martin] - Images requested: bird in flight and perched of the Asian form R. p. chinensis. Pale Sand Martin Riparia diluta (C/S Asia, and has straggled to Arabia and Levant) - Images requested: perched and flying birds. Rock Martin [Pale Crag Martin] - Images requested: P. f. perpallida (NE Arabia - the palest of all subspecies; any image, but mostly needed a bird showing upperparts), P. f. presaharica (from Morocco), P. f. pallida (C and E Iran to Pakistan), and P. f. Arabica (from S Egypt to N Horn of Africa and Socotra and SW Arabia). Barn Swallow - Image requested: rufous-bellied birds from Egypt of adjacent areas (including Jordan Valley in Is-rael). Tawny Pipit - Images requested: adult and 1st-winter (fresh autumn) birds. Grassland Pipit Anthus cinnamomeus: photos of birds taken in Yemen. Pechora Pipit - Images requested: adult in autumn and/or 1st-winter (fresh autumn). Red-throated Pipit - Images requested: adult in winter and 1st-winter (fresh autumn); juvenile. Rock Pipit - Images requested: spring/summer A. p. petrosus (Britain and NW France) and A. p. littoralis (Scandinavia and Russia); fresh autumn/winter birds; juvenile. Water Pipit - Images requested: A. s. coutellii: spring/summer, and fresh autumn/winter bird. (Blue-headed) Yellow Wagtail M. flava flava - Image requested: juvenile. (Sykes's) Yellow Wagtail M. f. bema - Image requested: A so-called 'Channel Wagtail', adult male in spring, to show resemblance between this and genuine Sykes's Wagtail. Black-headed Wagtail M. (flava) feldegg - Images requested: breeding female from the core area of the breeding range; fresh autumn ads (both sexes); 1stWs if one can prove racial ID; juv. (British) Yellow Wagtail M. (flava) flavissima - Images requested: fresh autumn ads (both sexes); variation of 1stWs if one can prove racial ID; juvenile in profile. Yellow-headed Wagtail M. (flava) lutea - Images requested: breeding female from the core area of the breeding range, or from reasonably easterly migration site (not from Africa); fresh autumn ad; variation of 1stWs if one can prove racial ID. Citrine Wagtail - Image requested: winter bird (e.g. from Israel). Black-backed Citrine Wagtail Motacilla (citreola) calcarata- Images requested: fresh autumn ad; variation of 1stWs if one can prove racial ID; juv. Grey Wagtail - Images requested: female with traces of dark throat; juvenile. White Wagtail - Images requested: breeding female; fresh autumn ad; variation of 1stWs (males and females). Also, adult male summer dukhunensis (C & E Caucasus, SE Russia to lower Volga), which has much white on wing forming large patch. Pied Wagtail M. alba yarrellii - Images requested: breeding female; fresh autumn ad male and female; variation of 1stWs (males and females). Masked Wagtail M. (alba) personata - Images requested: fresh autumn/winter adult and 1st-winter males and females; spring/summer female and 1st-summer male; juvenile. Moroccan Pied Wagtail M. (alba) subpersonata - Images requested: fresh autumn/winter adult and 1st-winter males and females; spring/summer female and 1st-summer female; juvenile. African Wagtail - Images requested: fresh autumn/winter adult and 1st-winter males and females; spring/summer adult female and 1st-summer males and females. Common Bulbul - Image requested: P. b. arsine (Nile Valley south to C Sudan). Waxwing - Image requested: first-winter female (bird with no white angles on primary tips, only whitish straight streaks, and with narrow yellow tip to tail and no or practically no red appendices on tips of secondaries). Grey Hypocolius - Images requested: ideally ad and 1st year of both sexes (perched and/or in flight). Wren - Images requested: T. t. zetlandicus (Shetlands). Siberian Accentor - Image requested: any autumn bird. Black-throated Accentor - Images requested: ad in winter/autumn, and 1st-wins in autumn showing variation of black on throat. Radde's Accentor - Images requested: winter/autumn plumages. A bird in summer showing typical streaking of lower throat. (Eastern) Rufous Bush Robin - Image requested (preferable from the breeding ground/season): race familiaris (Transcaucasia and Iraq to eastern Kazakhstan and Iran). Siberian Blue Robin - Images requested: female in summer; adult and 1stW in autumn. Bluethroat - Images requested: nominate svecica - adults and 1stWs (both sexes) in autumn; cyanecula (C and E Europe, SW Russia) - autumn birds; pallidogularis (SE Europe region of Ex-USSR, east from Volga, and lowland steppes of SW Siberia south to Turkmeniya, east to foothills of Altai mountains and upper Yenisey) - breeding male and female and fresh autumn ad male and female and variation of 1stWs; magna (Caucasus, Armenia, Transcaucasia) - autumn bird. Red-flanked Bluetail - Image requested: fresh autumn ad male. White-throated Robin - Images requested: fresh autumn ad male and/or female, and if possible 1stWs. Eversmann's Redstart - Images requested: winter/1stW female (autumn); spring female (not so worn); juv. Güldenstädt's Redstart - Images requested: 1stS male; autumn (fresh) ad male; ad/1stW female and 1stW male, and juvenile. European Black and East/Levant Black Redstarts - Images requested: P. o. gibraltariensis (W and C Europe east to Latvia and Crimea, south to Spain, Sicily, and Greece; also NW Africa and probably W Asia Minor) - fresh adults and 1stW in autumn, and better juv still needed; semirufus (Levant) - breeding female, and fresh autumn ad female, 1stW, and especially 1stW male, and juv; ochruros (Turkey east from c. 32°E, Caucasus, Transcaucasia, and N Iran east to Mazandaran) - breeding female, and fresh autumn ad male and female, also 1stW and juv; rufiventris (Transcaspia/Turkmeniya and NE Iran east through Himalayas and parts of China) - fresh autumn ad male and female, 1stW, juv. (Common) Redstart - Images requested: phoenicurus (Europe, N Asia, and NW Africa, east to Lake Baikal, south to Balkan countries and Ukraine) - juv; samamisicus (Crimea, Caucasus, E and S Turkey, and Levant, east to Iran) - breeding/spring female, and fresh autumn adult male and female and variation of 1stWs (both sexes). Moussier's Redstart - Images requested: 1stWs (both sexes); and juvenile. Blackstart - Images requested: C. m. lypura (SE Egypt, E Sudan and N Eritrea); C. m. airensis (Aďr Mountains, N Niger, east through Chad to Darfur in Sudan and from where marginally entering into WP). Whinchat - Images requested: fresh autumn ad male and female and 1stW. Fuerteventura Stonechat - Images requested: fresh autumn adult male and female, and 1stW; also juv. (Common) Stonechat S. t. rubicola (Europe) - Images requested: breeding/worn ad female; juvenile. (British) Stonechat S. t. hibernans (Britain, W France and Iberia) - Images requested: breeding/worn ad male; autumn/fresh (non-breeding) ad/1stW female. Siberian Stonechat S. t. maurus (NE Russia west to Transcaspia; in WP scarce/uncommon but regular, locally quite common, migrant in Middle East and a comparatively regular vagrant to W Europe in autumn, but much rarer through-out in spring and winter) - Images requested: autumn/fresh (non-breeding) ad and 1stW males. Armenian Stonechat S. t. armenicus (N Iran and S Transcaucasia; in WP scarce visitor to southern Levant/Middle East areas) - Images requested: spring ad female; autumn/fresh (non-breeding) ad male and female; 1stW male; juvenile. 'Kalmuck Stonechat' S. t. variegates (N Caucasus to lower Volga area of Russia; in WP scarce/uncommon visitor to southern Levant/Middle Eastern areas) - Images requested: spring/worn ad female; autumn/fresh (non-breeding) ad male and female; 1stW male; juvenile. Pied Bushchat - Images requested: S. c. rossorum (S Central Asia to E Iran and the NW Indian subcontinent): spring ad male, ad female; autumn/fresh (non-breeding) ad male, ad female and 1stW male; juvenile. Isabelline Wheatear - Image requested: fresh autumn birds; distinctive spring/summer male; bird in typical escape flight from above. (Northern) Wheatear - Images requested: O. o. oenanthe (of much of species range, including N and C Europe) autumn/fresh (non-breeding) ad male, ad female and 1stW male; O. o. libanotica (S Europe, Middle East, Central Asia) spring/summer ad male and female from the breeding areas, and autumn/fresh (non-breeding) ad male, ad female and 1stW male; O. o. leucorhoa (the "Greenland Wheatear" of Iceland and west to Canada) spring/summer ad male, ad female, and autumn/fresh (non-breeding) ads; 1stW male. Also a flight pictures to show tail pattern. Seebohm's Wheatear - Images requested: spring ad female (ideally a few images to show variation); autumn/fresh (non-breeding) ad male, ad female and 1stW male; juvenile. Red-breasted Wheatear race bottae (Arabia) only - Images requested: spring ad female; autumn/fresh (non-breeding) ad male, ad female and 1stW male. Also in flight to show tail pattern. (Western) Black-eared Wheatear - Images requested: spring ad female; autumn/fresh (non-breeding) ad and 1stW males; juv. Also in flight to show tail pattern. (Eastern) Black-eared Wheatear - Images requested: autumn/fresh (non-breeding) ad male, ad female and 1stW male; juv. Pied Wheatear - Images requested: breeding ad male and female (worn in summer ground, i.e. the male already with wholly black wings, no or virtually no pale fringing); juv; form vittata/white-throated morph - both sexes and in any season. Also in flight to show tail pattern. Cyprus Wheatear - Images requested: breeding ad females (on spring migration and also worn on summer ground); autumn/fresh (non-breeding) 1stW male and ad and 1stW females (a few birds to show variation). Also in flight to show tail pattern. Variable Wheatear - Images requested: O. p. picata white-bellied type - spring ad male, ad female (some variation) and autumn/fresh (non-breeding) ad male, ad female and 1stW male; juvenile; O. p. capistrata white-crowned type - spring ad male, ad female and autumn/fresh (non-breeding) ad male, ad female and 1stW male; O. p. opistholeuca black-bellied type - spring ad male, ad female and autumn/fresh (non-breeding) ad male, ad female and 1stW male. Also in flight to show tail pattern. Finsch's Wheatear - Images requested: autumn/fresh (non-breeding) ad male, ad female and 1stW male (with some variation); juvenile. Red-rumped Wheatear - Images requested: autumn/fresh (non-breeding) ad and 1stW males and females; juv. Also in flight to show tail pattern. Kurdish Wheatear Oenanthe xanthoprymna - Images requested: breeding male and female (showing some variation); autumn/fresh (non-breeding) ad and 1stW males and females; juv. Also in flight to show tail pattern. Persian Wheatear Oenanthe chrysopygia - Images requested: breeding male and female; juv. Also in flight to show tail pattern. Eastern Mourning Wheatear - Images requested: spring/summer (worn); autumn/fresh ad and 1stW; juv; one bird from Israel showing well the pink-orange ventral patch. Also in flight to show tail and wing patterns. Western Mourning Wheatear - Images requested: breeding male; autumn/fresh ad and 1stW males; juv;. Also in flight to show tail and wing patterns. South Arabian Wheatear - Images requested: fresh (non-breeding) ad and 1stW males; juv. Also in flight to show and wing patterns. Hooded Wheatear - Image requested: juv. Black Wheatear - Image requested: juv. (Rufous-tailed) Rock Thrush - Images requested: ad breeding male (2ndS or older) in profile from the breeding ground; fresh autumn ad male and female, and 1stW and juv. Blue Rock Thrush - Images requested: nominate solitarius (S Europe and North Africa east to Caucasus, Transcaucasia, Turkey, and Levant) - ad summer female from the breeding ground, and fresh autumn ad male and variation of 1stWs (both sexes); juv; longirostris (NE Iraq, Iran, Turkmeniya, and Afghanistan) - ad summer male and female from the breeding ground, and fresh ad female and variation of 1stWs (both sexes). Little Rock Thrush - Images requested: ad spring or summer male and female from the breeding ground, and fresh autumn ad female; variation of 1stWs (both sexes); juv. White's Thrush - Images requested: in flight. Siberian Thrush - Images requested: fresh autumn ad male and female and/or variation of 1stWs (both sexes). Swainson's Thrush - Images requested: 1stW. Veery - Image requested: 1stW. Ring Ouzel - Images requested: torquatus (Scandinavia, Britain), ad female breeding, and fresh/autumn (or early winter) ads and 1stWs (both sexes). (Alpine) Ring Ouzel alpestris (C & S Europe) - Images requested: ad male and female breeding, and fresh/autumn (or early winter) ads and 1stWs (both sexes). Eye-browed Thrush - Image requested: 1stW female and really typical, attractively advanced adult male. Naumann's Thrush, naumanni - Images requested: ad breeding male. Dusky Thrush, eunomus - Image requested: autumn female; also pretty adult male breeding. Red-throated Thrush - Images requested: 1stW female and fresh and worn ads. Black-throated Thrush - Images requested: 1stW male; breeding female. Mistle Thrush - Images requested: adult or 1stW perched. Song Thrush - Images requested: adult singing from top of tree. Any sharp image of adult. A local breeder from Outer Hebrides or Skye, i.e. ssp. hebridensis, showing heavier spotting below and overall darker colours. Zitting Cisticola - Images requested: a bird from Iberia (ssp. cisticola), where breeders are darker and colder brown, not so bright buffish-ochre as in e.g. Italy; an ad with some marking on breast; ad showing behaviour on the ground; bird in song flight; juv. Graceful Prinia - Images requested: a bird showing the undertail pattern for species identification (can be of any race); we also need images of lepida group (from Asia Minor eastwards) with relatively longer tail and poorly-developed tail-bands (subterminal bars narrower and fainter). (Common) Grasshopper Warbler - Images requested: a bird on the ground or low down in grass, showing typical skulking posture; autumn bird. Pallas's Grasshopper Warbler - Image requested: autumn bird. River Warbler - Images requested: a bird on the ground, or in shrubbery, showing typical skulking posture; autumn bird (some variation). Moustached Warbler - Image requested: nominate in spring and/or autumn. Aquatic Warbler - Image requested: a singing bird with head in profile. Paddyfield Warbler - Images requested: autumn and spring plumages from Europe and W and Central Asia. Blyth's Reed Warbler - Image requested: worn autumn ad; fresh 1stW birds (July/August-September). Marsh Warbler - Image requested: spring adult (perhaps singing); worn autumn ad and fresh 1stW birds. (European) Reed Warbler - Images requested: autumn (worn ad and fresh 1stW) and spring birds. (Caspian) Reed Warbler Acrocephalus scirpaceus fuscus - Images requested: spring bird from E Turkey or Kazakhstan; any autumn bird (worn ad or fresh 1stW). 'Arabian Reed Warbler' Acrocephalus scirpaceus avicenniae (from the Red Sea mangroves of N Somalia, NE Sudan, SW Saudi Arabia & Yemen) - Images requested: autumn (worn ad and fresh 1stW) and spring birds. Great Reed Warbler - Images requested: autumn worn ad and fresh 1stW birds (nominate); race zarudnyi (breeds in Iran, and Volga basin east through Transcaspia to W Mongolia and Krasnoyarsk area) with greyish appearance. Basra Reed Warbler - Images requested: autumn (worn ad and fresh 1stW) birds. Oriental Reed Warbler - Images requested: autumn worn ad and spring birds. Isabelline Warbler (= Western Olivaceous Warbler) - Images requested: any. ('Egyptian') Olivaceous Warbler (nominate pallida) - Images requested: any. (Eastern) Olivaceous Warbler (elaeica) - Images requested: autumn (fresh 1stW) and spring birds. Upcher's Warbler - Images requested: spring/summer (fresh) breeders (like in Turkey); autumn (worn ad and fresh 1stW). Olive-tree Warbler - spring/summer (fresh) breeders (like in Turkey); autumn (worn ad and fresh 1stW). Icterine Warbler - Images requested: autumn birds. Melodious Warbler - Images requested: autumn birds. Marmora's Warbler - Images requested: ads and 1stYs (both sexes) in autumn (fresh) and spring (worn); juv. Balearic Warbler - Images requested: ads and 1stYs (both sexes) in autumn (fresh) and spring (worn); juv. Dartford Warbler - Images requested: juv; dull 1stW female. Tristram's Warbler - Images requested: juv; dull 1stW female ('Spectacled Warbler-like'). Spectacled Warbler - Images requested: juv; dull 1stW female ('Subalpine or Common Whitethroat Warbler-like'). (Western) Subalpine Warbler - Images requested: spring/summer female; ads and 1stYs (both sexes) in autumn (fresh); juv. (Eastern) Subalpine Warbler - Images requested: ads and 1stYs (both sexes) in autumn (fresh) and spring (worn); juv. (Moltoni's) Subalpine Warbler - Images requested: ads and 1stYs (both sexes) in autumn (fresh) and female in spring (worn); juv. Ménétries's Warbler - Images requested: ads (both sexes) in autumn (fresh) and female in spring (worn) - for the two races rubescens and mystacea; juv. Sardinian Warbler melanocephala - Images requested: females (fresh and worn) and juv. Sardinian Warbler momus - Images requested: ads and 1stYs (both sexes) in autumn (fresh) and spring (worn); juv. Cyprus Warbler - Images requested: ads and 1stYs (both sexes) in autumn (fresh) and spring female (worn); juv. Rüppell's Warbler - Images requested: ads and 1stYs (both sexes) in autumn and juv. Arabian Warbler - Images requested: ads and 1stYs (both sexes); juv. Yemen Warbler - Images requested: ads and 1stYs (both sexes); juv Western Orphean Warbler - Images requested: ads and 1stYs (both sexes) in autumn; juv. Eastern Orphean Warbler - Images requested: ads and 1stYs (both sexes) in autumn (fresh) and spring (worn); juv. Blackcap - Images requested: 1stW male with cap a mixture of brown and black; the melanistic morph from Madeira (if possible). Greenish Warbler - Image requested: autumn migrant. Two-barred Greenish Warbler - Images requested: autumn/winter birds. Green Warbler - Images requested: a better marked breeding bird with clear wing bar and more yellow in plumage; also any autumn bird (ad and 1stW). Eastern Bonelli's Warbler - Images requested: autumn birds (ads, 1stWs or juv.) Brown Woodland Warbler - Images requested: autumn and spring birds. Siberian Chiffchaff, Phylloscopus (collybita) tristis - Images requested: typical autumn migrants. ('Khorasanian') Chiffchaff, race menzbieri - Images requested: autumn and spring birds. (Breeding birds of N Iran and S Turkmenistan.) Mountain Chiffchaff, Phylloscopus (sindianus?) lorenzii - Images requested: any good ones. Iberian Chiffchaff, Phylloscopus ibericus - Images requested: any good ones. Eastern Willow Warbler, race yakutensis - Image requested: any spring and autumn birds. (Common) Goldcrest - Images requested: worn or 'dull' ad, and a bird feeding in spruce tree. Tenerife Goldcrest - Images requested: female; juv. (Common) Firecrest - Images requested: ad female; duller autumn birds, juv. African Paradise Flycatcher - Images requested: male (white, normal and intermediates) and female and 1stY birds, preferable of race harterti (endemic to Arabia), but we can also accept images from East Africa. - Indication for photogra-phers how to age/sex the photos for submission: Ad female resembles superficially similar 1stYs, but has diagnostic black outer greater coverts with narrow whitish fringes, white fringes to inner secondaries, plainer/deeper rufous tertials, and central tail-feathers tend to project slightly further; 1stYs (both sexes), unlike ad ?, have juvenile outer greater coverts, which are dark brown with rufous fringes, inner secondaries lack white fringes, and juvenile tertials have diffuse dark centres; juvenile primaries and primary-coverts are rather worn (blacker in ad). Gambaga Flycatcher - Images requested: worn and fresh birds. Taiga Flycatcher - Images requested: a pretty ad male in profile; autumn ads; 1stWs. Pied Flycatcher - Images requested: autumn ad; juv. Atlas Flycatcher - Images requested: ad female in spring showing back and wing pattern; autumn birds. Semi-collared Flycatcher - Images requested: ads, 1stW and 1stS of the two sexes, spring but especially of autumn birds. Collared Flycatcher - Images requested: full ad male in spring/summer (with black primaries); summer female in profile; autumn ads and 1stW female. (Turkish) Long-tailed Tit, Aegithalos c. alpinus (incl. syn. Tephronotus; Turkey, S Transcaucasia, N Iran) - Image requested: ad. Willow Tit - Images requested: C and E European birds and the British race kleinschmidti. Sombre Tit, Parus lugubris - Images requested: ad in typical habitat, including following subspecies: lugens (S Greece), dubius (SW Iran), hyrcanus (N Iran, S Tukmenistan). Coal Tit - Images requested: ads from the following countries or areas: Corsica or Sardinia (sardus); Morocco (atlas) or N Algeria/Tunisia (leudoci); Crimea (moltchanovi) or Caucasus/Transcaucasia (michalowskii) or NE Turkey/southern slope of W Greater Caucasus (derjugini) or N Iran (gaddi); Cyprus (Cypriotes). Crested Tit - Images requested: ads from either S Iberia (weigoldi) or Scotland (scoticus). (European) Blue Tit - Image requested: ad from Zagros, SW Iran (persicus). African Blue Tit - Image requested: ad from La Palma, Canary Islands (palmensis). Great Tit - Images requested: juv; female (with narrow, broken dark band on belly). Algerian Nuthatch - Image requested: male. (Eurasian) Nuthatch - Images requested: any image of any race. Wallcreeper - Images requested: ad in any season; a bird in flight. (Eurasian) Penduline Tit, Remiz pendulinus - Images requested: (a) birds (preferably from the breeding areas and season) from: E Turkey, Cyprus, Transcaucasia, or from Middle East to W Iran (R. p. menzbieri); (b) Volga and Ural rivers south to N Caucasus and W & N Caspian (R. p. caspius). Also some winter ads and 1st Ws (both sexes) of any race, but preferably nominate, e.g. N & C Europe and Spain. White-crowned Penduline Tit, Remiz (pendulinus) coronatus - Image requested: any useful picture that shows its characters. Black-headed Penduline Tit, Remiz (pendulinus) macronyx - Image requested: any useful picture that shows its characters. Shining Sunbird - Image requested: intermediate 1stW plumage. Palestine Sunbird - Image requested: eclipse male. (Eurasian) Golden Oriole - Image requested: a bird in flight. Rosy-patched Bushshrike Rhodophoneus cruentus: images of the nominate (all ages/sexes) from Egypt, Sudan and Eritrea Turkestan Shrike, Lanius isabellinus phoenicuroides - Images requested: typical ad male in spring-summer; grey-crowned morph 'karelini'; autumn birds. Daurian Shrike, Lanius i. isabellinus - Images requested: ad male autumn; ad male and female spring . Isabelline Shrike, Lanius (isabellinus) arenarius - Images requested: ads (both sexes) and 1stWs in au-tumn; ads (both sexes) in spring. Bay-backed Shrike - Image requested: ad male and female of race nargianus (Iran); 1stWs. Long-tailed Shrike - Images requested: ad female of race erythronotus; 1stW bird. Great Grey Shrike, ssp. Excubitor - Images requested: spring/summer ad female with faint barring on breast and sides; 1stW with obvious barring beneath, with pale-tipped greater coverts and with paler bill-base. Great Grey Shrike, ssp. homeyeri (Ukraine and Crimea eastwards through a Russia and SW Siberia) - Image requested: any plumage. Great Grey Shrike , ssp. Sibiricus (Siberia east of Yenisey) - Image requested: autumn bird. Great Grey Shrike, ssp. meridionalis (Iberia, S France) - Images requested: spring/summer ad showing pink breast and complete white supercilium; 1stWs. Great Grey Shrike, ssp. aucheri (Levant, Arabia, Middle East, S Iran; apparently easternmost Egypt) - Image requested: ad female. Great Grey Shrike, ssp. buryi (Yemen) - Image requested: ad bird with grey underparts. (Balearic) Woodchat Shrike, Lanius senator badius - Image requested: ad female and ad male spring/summer. Jay [N Africa] Garrulus g. cervicalis (Tunisia and NE Algeria) - Image requested: ad. Jay [E Russia] Garrulus g. krynicki (Caucasus, Transcaucasia, and N Asia Minor) - Image requested: ad. Jay - Image requested: adults of races severtzowi (W Russia), brandtii (N Urals and east), krynicki (Caucasus and Transcaucasia), anatoliae (Asia Minor), cervicalis (Tunisia and NE Algeria), whitakeri (locally in N Morocco and NW Algeria), minor (Atlas, Algeria and Morocco), glaszneri (Cyprus) and hyrcanus (Elburz Mts and S Caspian Sea shore in N Iran). Magpie - Image requested: P. (pica) asirensis from Asir massif of SW Saudi Arabia. Alpine Chough - Image requested: juv. (Red-billed) Chough - Image requested: juv. Daurian Jackdaw - Image requested: ads and 1stY birds (with paler and darker individual of the latter to show variation); birds in flight. Rook - Images requested: an ad in profile, standing up; a flying flock. Carrion Crow - Images requested: an ad in profile with flat crown ('wary'); a flying bird. Hooded Crow - Images requested: some hybrids of Carrion x Hooded. Brown-necked Raven - Image requested: birds with less brown tone (like from Israel). Tristram's Starling - Image requested: typical flying flock. Rose-coloured Starling - Images requested: juv; birds in flight. Starling - Images requested: breeding European ad, both sexes. Common Mynah - Image requested: juv. Bank Mynah - Images requested: juv; ad in flight. Pied Mynah - Image requested: juv. Wattled Starling - Image requested: breeding ad male (older ad with extensive wattles) and ad female; non-breeding ad male; 1stY/imm and juv; birds in flight. House Sparrow - Image requested: breeding male P. d. biblicus (Near East and Levant, including Israel). Indian Sparrow - Images requested: breeding male and female; non-breeding males (some variation). The relevant races are indicus (S Asia west to Arabia) and the localised hufufae (NE Arabia from Al Hasa, Saudi Arabia to N Oman). Italian Sparrow - Images requested: worn/breeding male; female. Dead Sea Sparrow - Images requested: fresh ad male in autumn; ad female spring; 1stY female. Afghan Scrub Sparrow, Passer (moabiticus) yatii (Iranian Seistan and adjacent SW Afghanistan) - Images requested: worn spring/summer and fresh autumn ad and 1stW/S males and females (i.e. all main recognizable plumages). Sind Jungle Sparrow - Image requested: worn spring/summer and fresh autumn males and female. Desert Sparrow - Image requested: male and female of the Asian form Passer (simplex) zarudnyi. Arabian Golden Sparrow - Image requested: breeding and non-breeding ad male; ad female and 1stY male. Sudan Golden Sparrow - Image requested: breeding ad female; non-breeding ad male. Chestnut-shouldered Sparrow - Image requested: ad female. Rock Sparrow - Image requested: bird(s) in flight. Bush Petronia - Images requested: ad male and female; non-breeding (fresh) male. (White-winged) Snow Finch - Images requested: nivalis (Europe): ad breeding male and female, birds in flight; also 1sWs in autumn. Red Avadavat - Images requested: ad female, moulting/non-breeding male; 1stY male. Zebra Waxbill - Images requested: ad male and female, and 1stY male. Indian Silverbill - Image requested: group of birds. African Silverbill - Images requested: group of birds. Common Waxbill - Images requested: female from Portugal; young birds. Arabian Waxbill - Image requested: ads (both sexes) and juv. Red-billed Firefinch - Images requested: race rhodopsis (from Sahel, from N Senegal E through Mauritania, Mali, Burkina Faso, Niger, Chad, Central African Republic, S Sudan & W Ethiopia) or any other birds from N or NE Africa - full breeding ad male and female, and 1stY male. (Common) Chaffinch - Image requested: birds/flocks in flight. Canary Islands Chaffinch - Images requested: typical ad male and ad female. Madeira Chaffinch - Image requested: ad female. Citril Finch - Image requested: ad female. Corsican Finch - Image requested: ad female. (European) Serin - Images requested: breeding ad female; winter ads and 1stWs (variations); also flocks. Syrian Serin - Images requested: bright breeding ad male (showing front and profile); winter ads and 1stWs (both sexes for all ages); also flocks; juv. Arabian Serin - Image requested: bird showing yellowish rump. Yemen Serin - Image requested: bird showing lack of yellowish rump Golden-winged Grosbeak - Images requested: breeding ad male and female; fresh/winter birds and young. (European) eenfinch - Images requested: ad male of brighter southern race (S France, Spain, mainland Italy) aurantiiventris; a flying displaying male. (European) Goldfinch - Images requested: flying bird, or bird with spread wing(s). (Eurasian) Siskin - Images requested: winter flock with mixed ages/sexes, both perched and in flight. Yemen Linnet - Images requested: ad breeding female. Twite - Image requested: bright summer male with pink rump. Arctic Redpoll - Images requested: bright summer male with pink breast. Common Crossbill [Red Crossbill] - Images requested: feeding bird, climbing among cones; flock feeding. Scottish Crossbill - Images requested: ad male, ad female, 1stWs (both sexes), juv. Parrot Crossbill - Image requested: juv. (Asian) Crimson-winged Finch, Rhodopechys sanguineus - Images requested: breeding (spring/summer) ad male and ad female (1stSs if possible to of both sexes); fresh/winter ads (both sexes) and 1stWs (both sexes); also in flight; juv. Atlas (Crimson-winged) Finch, Rhodopechys (sanguineus?) alienus (restricted to high areas of the Atlas Mts of Morocco and, locally, NE Algeria) - Images requested: breeding 1stS, of both sexes; fresh/winter ads (both sexes) and 1stWs (both sexes); also in flight; juv. Desert Finch - Images requested: 1stW male; juv; bird(s) in flight. Trumpeter Finch - Images requested: breeding male from Middle East (crassirostris); dull winter birds, esp. 1stWs; juv; bird(s) in flight. Common Rosefinch - Images requested: female, ad in summer. Great Rosefinch - Images requested: breeding ad female, 1stS male; fresh/autumn male and juv/1stWs. Pine Grosbeak - Images requested: any plumage of not feeding bird; in particular, we need autumn/winter ads and 1stWs (both sexes). Flying birds. Azores Bullfinch - Images requested: ad and juv. Hawfinch - Images requested: juv; bird(s) in flight. White-winged Grosbeak - Images requested: ad male and female; juv. Black-and-white Warbler - Images requested: ad male and 1stW male/female - only autumn/winter birds. Tennessee Warbler - Images requested: ad male and 1stW male/female - only autumn/winter birds. Northern Parula - Images requested: ad male and 1stW male/female - only autumn/winter birds. Yellow Warbler - Images requested: ad male and 1stW male/female (also dull 1stW female) - only autumn/winter birds. Blackburnian Warbler - Images requested: ad male and 1stW male/female - only autumn/winter birds. Blackpoll Warbler - Image requested: ad male non-breeding. American Redstart - Images requested: ad male and 1stW male/female - only autumn/winter birds. Ovenbird - Image requested: 1stW. (Common) Yellowthroat - Images requested: ad male and female and 1stW male/female - only autumn/winter birds. White-crowned Sparrow - Images requested: ads and 1stWs - only autumn/winter birds. White-throated Sparrow - Images requested: ads and 1stWs - only autumn/winter birds. Dark-eyed Junco - Images requested: ads and 1stWs - only autumn/winter birds. Snow Bunting - Image requested: 1stW. Lapland Bunting - Image requested: a non-breeding (autumn/winter) male with rufous-tinged nape/hindneck and some black feather-bases on crown and throat visible. Rock Bunting - Images requested: summer female; fresh winter ad male, 1stW male and 1stW female; juv Mountain Bunting Emberiza striolata - Images requested: 1stW male and dull 1stW female; juv House Bunting Emberiza sahari - Images requested: any sharp and good, esp. of juv. African House Bunting - Images requested: breeding (spring/summer) ad male and female; fresh/winter 1stWs (both sexes); juv. Chestnut Bunting - Images requested: female; 1stW male and female. Smyrna Bunting Emberiza cineracea - Images requested: breeding (spring/summer) ad female; fresh/autumn ads and 1stWs (both sexes); juv. Cinereous Bunting Emberiza (cineracea) semenowi - All plumages are interesting , but especially of autumn birds. Ortolan Bunting - Images requested: breeding female; fresh/autumn ads and 1stWs; juv. Grey-necked Bunting - Images requested: 1stWs (both sexes); juv. Yellow-browed Bunting - Images requested: fresh/autumn ads and 1stWs (both sexes). Black-faced Bunting - Images requested: fresh/autumn ads and 1stWs (both sexes). (Common) Reed Bunting - Images requested: nominate juv. At least some of the eastern/southern races with thick bills, e.g. incognita (Volga and eastwards) or pyrrhuloides (N Caspian Sea, much of Central Asia), and/or witherbyi and intermedia (some of the Mediterranean countries), and/or reiseri (SE Europe and Turkey), and caspia (Transcaucasia). Red-headed Bunting - Images requested: fresh/autumn ads and 1stWs (both sexes). Black-headed Bunting - Images requested: fresh/autumn ads (both sexes); juv. Corn Bunting - Images requested: flying with dangling legs; singing from fence or phone wire. Rose-breasted Grosbeak - Images requested: ads and 1stWs (both sexes) - only autumn/winter birds. |
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The first volume (passerines) of the
long-awaited book by Hadoram Shirihai & Lars Svensson, the HANDBOOK OF WESTERN
PALEARCTIC BIRDS, is now being readied for publication. It will be the
definitive work on the identification, plumage variation, racial
identification and taxonomy of the birds of the region.