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Very helpful....liked and subscribed ;)

🤯 Mind blowing! Thank you for the great tips.

I learned good tips. Thanks. Water birds are hard for me and I’m making it my goal to get better with them. 👍

Look up the article "Why are Yellowlegs hard to identify" by David Sibley. In it he comments... This is the same image seen at the start of this post. It shows the shortest-billed Greater (upper) and a long-billed Lesser (lower), with head sizes matched to emphasize relative bill length. In this case the relative bill length is essentially identical.

hey. Wow its so windy. Great observation. Greets Stefan

Oh my gosh this is badass! Love it

Thank you ! The bill length and forehead tips are essential !!

I love this video so much, I need to go on a pelagic now! The fact that storm petrels breed in deserts and possibly in the high Andes is genuinely insane. I've not felt this excited in a while haha.

Love it! Excellent organization! Inspired to work on this type of hierarchy this week. I especially love how you organized your Gull section. Their plumage molts are amazing!! Thanks for sharing!!

Great video, thanks for the wonderful info, I think I saw a couple birds that looks just like this one here in NC today, im wondering if ther lost.

Thanks so much for sharing such a wonderful video 🐦👍

this is awesome. great video and great concept, very helpful!!

A couple of minor corrections. Most Western Gull chicks hatch in early June, so you need to add about a month to the ages in the first year. Can you tell males and females apart, because i am pretty good at this?

Great video ... more gull videos please! I'm just starting to get into them more seriously. Cheers

Yay! Not bored at all! Thanks!!

great video

Thank you so much for making this video. I also have SSHL (totally deaf in one ear). I am an avid birder who leads trips for my county and this has obviously deeply impaired my abilities. I would love to hear an update on how the cochlear implant is working for you. I specifically want to know if you can localize sound and if you can still identify birds by sound with your deaf ear. Does it sound like the bird or a different version of it?

Saw this video and then saw 2 dowitchers today that triggered a rare bird alert. Probably not so much rare as late. Sure enough, when they flew (not off, just a little ways) they called and were short-billed. Also, am just recently using Merlin for sounds, which is incredibly useful and so I can see the spectogram confirmation.

Great info! I went back through some photos I have taken the last couple years to see if I could do a better job at identifying. I have one that I thought was a lesser but has that neck bulge going on. The bill is just barely longer than the head so it really trips me up. There must be some variation in bill length?

I'm trying to sort out gulls on Vancouver Island and found this very helpful.

Nifty, indeed! Thanks!

Great commentary!

While going through photos in eBird, if you see anything misidentified, click "report" in the bottom right and you can then flag the observation for a local reviewer to review.

Thanks so much for this detailed video regarding the Yellowlegs. I was able to identify the bird I photographed today using your identifiers, and now have the info needed to differentiate between the two when out in the field again. Thanks again!

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This is helpful identification video. We don't have them here in Florida but still good to learn something new. Thanks.

Excellent video Alvaro! I usually don't carry a camera and can't really see the primary formula, but beyond the third wing bar, I find that the "string of droplets" vs solid look to the wing bars, the head profile, and the cheek/throat color delineation that Dan mentions are a pretty solid combo. While I'm certain that I've mis-ID'd more than my share of Elaenias, I can't recall having seen one of this pair well, seen multiple of these features, then being surprised by the vocalization. I find Small-billed vs. Olivaceous much more challenging and usually don't have much/any confidence on non-vocal birds.

Solid analysis. Great podcast!

Great video Al. I would add that Small-billed also seem to have stronger contrast between the pale gray throat and the green-brown auriculars, which in combination with the more rounded head gives them a more "Empid-like" facial expression, which I see in the Tadoussac bird. Glad to hear that there is some potential material taken from the bird to see if it keys out genetically to one or the other... looking forward to hear if that agrees with this ID!

Thanks for putting this together so quickly. Can't wait to go birding with you!

Thanks so much Alvaro. Super helpful for our Beachwatch surveys!

This is an awesome resource Alvaro, thank you! I hope you do more of this in the future. 👍 Oh, and I hope your procedure went well the other day! Take care.

I knew you couldn't tell thedirection of a sound, but I didn't realize everything was the same volume. Lockdown might have been I been a bit restful for you. Excited for you.

Good luck mate

Wow, my hearing loss experience is so very similar to yours. In fact I did the same thing with my phone-I thought something was wrong with my phone!! It’s been 3 years since I lost the hearing in my left ear. I love birding, but identifying birds by sounds is so hard. I use the CROS, but cochlear implant has been recommended for me. I will definitely be following you and I’m wishing you the best of luck with your surgery!!

Best wishes! Looking forward to the next post!! 🙏🏻💞

Wishing you luck, Al! Somehow, this story brought this to mind: ruclips.net/video/Z5ZklF5CKMc/видео.html

🦅🦅❤️ Love gulls!

nice video

Such a helpful video, thanks for doing these!!!

Great job, shape is king! Really nice video too. What program are you using that allows your face in a circle like that and gives you the high res powerpoint-like presentation?

Loved this!

Thanks for this video! I learn some new key things to look for; bulge & angle of neck I never knew.

Very useful and informative - Thanks.

In a sparrows class and studying Fox Sparrows and subspecies. This is an absolutely fantastic way to study them. Thank you so much!

Thank you Alvaro! It is very interesting way to use e-bird. Very helpful!

Good tips, it's really helpful.

Excellent and can only get better from here. Nice work Alvaro

I'm from the east coast so it's interesting to see all the western gulls. Thank you for detailed explanation 🙂 I learned a lot of your video. When I go to California now I know what field marks to look. Also, I had no idea there are so many hybrids.

Thank you, Alvaro. It's great (and rare) to deal with information that is absolute.