| Re: Can anyone confirm id? Sorry, I’m just not buying that this bird is a nightingale. And there are several reasons why...
1). The bill is just too chunky at the tip for nightingale
2). There is a pronounced supercilium
3). The underside is a warm buff and not cold / pale white / grey of a nightingale
4). The Alula is way too small (unless it’s a Thrush Nightingale)
5). There appears to be a number of emarginations on the primaries that nightingales do not have
6). The rump does not appear to have any rufus tones that all nightingale sp. have, and
7). The legs are chunky and grey.
All of these features are shown by garden warblers and that is what my identification would indeed be. |