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IDENTIFICATION ARTICLES

Cover Photo: Broad-billed Sandpiper from the Surfbirds galleries © Ron Marshall

Articles grouped by Families

Seabirds

Pacific Loon and Arctic Loon Identification

Cin-Ty and A. Birch
Pacific Diver in Europe

Cin-Ty and A. Birch
Long-billed Murrelet notes and links

Surfbirds

Gulls, Terns and Skuas

Mew Gull Identification

By Peter Alfrey
ID of Adult Vega Gull: Field Observations from Japan

By Chris Gibbins
Hybrid Gulls Breeding in Belgium

By Peter Adriaens
A potential new bird species for Europe: Results of DNA analyses on two controversial skuas

By Dick Newell
Ageing and Moult in Catharacta skuas

By Votier, Bearhop, Furness, Newell & Harvey
Orange-billed Terns in Europe - Summer 2002 - photo gallery

By Surfbirds
Moult variation in Lesser Black-backed Gulls

By Peter Adriaens
Thayer's Gull - good species or not?

By Brian J Small and Martin Birch
Baltic and Heuglin's Gulls - Photo Essay

By Chris Gibbins and Paul Baxter
Black-tailed Gull - A Photo Essay

By Paul Doherty
Yellow-legged Gulls on the Canary Islands - photo essay

By Brian J Small
Photo Essay - 1st-winter gulls in so. California

By Alex Lees
Thayer's Gull; a photo essay

By John Idzikowski
An odd Laughing Gull

By Chris Wood
California Gull and Yellow-bellied Flycatcher

By Cin-Ty Lee
Caspian Gull; a photo essay

By Brian J Small
Identification of Juvenile Yellow-legged Gulls L. michahellis.

By Brian J Small
A discussion of ageing of second- and third-calendar year Lesser Black-backed Gull

By Brian J. Small
Caspian Gull in Suffolk, UK - Identification and Status

By Brian J. Small
A photo discussion on a putative Heuglin's Gull L.heuglini in Norfolk, UK, July 2000.

By Brian J. Small

waterfowl

The 'Swarkestone' Lesser Scaup

By Tony Davison and Brian J Small
Discussion of vagrant Baikal Teal and ageing in UK

By Brian J Small
Separation of Ross's and Snow Goose

By Bill Schmoker and Mike Freiberg

shorebirds

Enigma of the San Pedro Dowitcher, March 2013 (Murcia, Spain)

By Richard Howard
Malyasia's Mystery Plover

By David Bakewell and Peter Kennerley
North American Peeps a new approach

By Cameron Cox
New ID Notes of Dowitcher Bills

By Pekka Sarvela
New Advances in the Field Identification of Dowitchers

By Cin-Ty Lee and Andrew Birch
Slender-billed Curlew, Northumberland 1998 - statement from

By BBRC
Dowitcher Identification

By John Idzikowski

herons

Ageing Spoonbills

By Alexander Hellquist
Comparison of juvenile Yellow-crowned and Black-crowned Night Herons

By John Idzikowski

passerines

Identification of Bell's and Sagebrush Sparrow

A. Birch
Woodhouse's and California Scrub-Jay Identification

By Andy Birch
Subalpine Warbler Identification

By Brian J Small
Marmora's Warbler Identification

By Brian J Small
"Western" Willow Flycatcher

By Mike Freiberg
Male Ehrenberg's Redstart

By Brian J Small
Female Collared Flycatcher, Bryher, Scilly

By Brian J Small
Iberian Chiffchaff in the UK

By Brian J Small
Balearic Woodchat Shrike

By Brian J Small
Possible Horned Lark on Isles of Scilly -

By Brian J Small
Isabelline Wheatear - Photo Spot

By Brian J Small
The 'Kelynack' Acro - some comments

By Brian Small
Temminck's Horned Lark - most southerly record ever?

By Brian J Small
Discussion on Short-toed Treecreepers

By Brian J Small
Identification of Middendorff's Grasshopper Warbler

By Brian J Small
The new taxonomy of the "Isabelline Shrike" complex

By Brian J Small
The Desert Lesser Whitethroat on Teeside; some notes

By Brian J Small
Male ficedula flycatcher identification

By Brian J Small
A Mystery phylloscopus warbler from the UK

By Dr Jane Turner
Illustrated notes on the Identification of Siberian Blue Robin

By Brian J Small
Notes on Louisiana and Northern Waterthrushes.

By Cin-Ty Lee
Notes on the field identification, distribution, and vagrancy patterns of the Buff-bellied Pipit Complex (Anthus rubescens) in North America and Europe

By Cin-Ty Lee and A. Birch
Bullock's and Baltimore Oriole Identification

By Cin-Ty Lee and A. Birch