This month’s challenge is all about the identification of long-legged birds

Check your answers against our explanations. Remember, there are no ‘trick’ birds or extreme rarities among these...

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Birds of prey in flight have a reputation for being very tough to identify. However, follow these guidelines and you have a good chance of telling these five larger species apart. Note photos are not to scale.

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