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Original posted by lyatming at 7/08/2013 19:03
Thank for ajohn and Bart.
As mentioned by the guide, the best season for birding is May in Hungary.
By the calls, it would be easy to find owls and woodpeckers.
By the way, Bart,
the red-breasted fly ...
Sure.
I must start by saying that a single picture can be different from a bird in motion and secondly that I can make a mistake.
But I feel your bird looks like a juvenile Robin in any way. I cannot find any character that does not match this species.
The character that I feel points most against Red-breasted Fly is that this bird clearly lacks the long whitish base on the outer tail feathers. The white that can be seen, looks like that of the undertail-coverts to me and the outer tail feathers lack any white.
Even with a view slightly from below, and in a good shot like yours, the white on the outer tail feathers should be visible, as it is in these examples (although these birds have a different age):
http://tinyurl.com/los4ayg
http://tinyurl.com/k9lgfxn
http://tinyurl.com/lw79whz
http://tinyurl.com/kktdnyu
When I look at you picture at the other website (birding.hu), the tail is not as sharp as in the one you posted here and might give the impression - but just the impression - that the outer tail feathers are white.
So far, I have not been able to find a picture of a juvenile Red-breasted Fly taken in summer. Most are adults or first-winters that turn-up as a vagrant in Western-Europe. Expect this one:
http://tinyurl.com/mpmee7w
Only the facial pattern can be judged and this is different from a juvenile Robin, because the head is brown and the throat is buffish, being more uniform in Robin. See for example the Robin on this page (scroll down a bit)
http://tinyurl.com/lp5aho2 or this one
http://tinyurl.com/jvhpqlt.
So to me, your bird is a Robin. I would be very interested to hear arguments that exclude this species and point to Red-breasted Flycatcher, however. But errors with this species seem to appear regularly.
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