Sikke noget snavs at de der pibere har en delvis senvinterfældning;-)

Bortset fra det, tror jeg du har ret i hodgsoni. Hovedtegning og de næsten Engpiberlignende bryststriber er IMO ikke så gode for Skovpiber.

English:

Somewhat 'dirty' in general appearence due to moulting head/body-feathers, partly obscuring the tell-tale traits of Olive-backed.
Diagnostic head-pattern, and bold breast-streaking suggest the latter species.
Comments please....

I disagree. I think it is a Tree Pipit. Very pale lore, very fine flank streaks, quite fine breast-streaking and rather pale looking (and not very contrasting) face IMO seem to suggest Tree rather than OBP.

Tak til Peter og Sebastian. Jeg er blevet overbevist om at det er en Skovpiber (Tree Pipit). Jeg tror det bedte argument for Skovpiber er den ret grove stribning på ryggen.

Vil Netfugl venligst omdøbe billedet, eller slette det!

mvh. Helge

Hermed rettet fra Taigapiber til Skovpiber.

Med venlig hilsen

Rasmus/admin

I see nothing wrong for OBP here. That clear, wide and long supercilium must be remarkable for a TP at any stage? I think the rather pale face can be expected in winter and underparts as well as mantle streaking are not that different from
this bird e g.

Even if a Tree could show such a pale rear ear spo, and the size of it - I agree with Hans and he´s reasons for Olive-backed.

JanJ

Thanks to Hans and Jan for giving their views.

Having gone through a large number of photographs of both species, I am now even more convinced of the correctness of Helge's initial ID.

Best regards
Peter

Rolf Christensen told me long ago that he and Andreas Bruun Kristensen thought I had misidentified this bird.
Reluctant (as always) to admit a mistake I didn't followed up on it.
I do believe Peters initial Id is correct (and mine wasn't) and apologize to Helge for adding to the general confusion regarding the birds ID.

All the best

Sebastian

Thanks for all the opinions!

No reason to apologize Sebastian, I was inviting opinions, and you was one of the few Danish birdwatchers having the skills or "cojones" to give one.

With everybody in agreement, will Netfugl, please change the ID back to Olive-backed.

Best regards,
Helge

Med vor tids fokus på Barm og kvindelige Balder i
offentlig debat og billeder, vel bemærkelsesværdigt at
NETFUGL kommentatorer p.t. adresserer mandlige
attributter i fb.m. hhv.

¤ Fugle-eksteriør
- se under Pomarine Skua, Hampus L. foto, 2. juni 2012.

¤ Personer, i form af flatterende 'cojones' i kommentaren over denne.

Personligt foretrækker jeg d. kvindelige, og ser fx et 'Cleopatras sminkede øje' på HELGEs nylige Mursejler
foto på NETFUGL.

VH og Smil ,,,,,,,,,,, C.