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Recent content by johnallcock

  1. J

    Speckled Piculet (?) in Thailand--Doi Inthanon NP

    As well as the head pattern, the wing pattern also fits with Rufous-winged Fulvetta (bright chestnut panel and white fringes to outer primaries) and it lacks the distinctive white stripe along the tail of Speckled Piculet. Rufous-winged Fulvetta: ML617868525 - Rufous-winged Fulvetta - Macaulay...
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    Uzbekistan Flycatcher

    Uzbekistan is located between the wintering grounds and breeding grounds of Red-breasted Flycatcher, so it seems reasonable that it should show up there on migration. eBird data includes quite a few records, mostly in April. I think your ID is correct. Taiga Flycatcher would be much less likely...
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    Brown Booby may get split - an issue for British listers?

    Pacific Swift and Black-faced Bunting have also remained on the British list despite recent splits. Have the records for these actually been confirmed to rule out Cook's/Salim Ali's/Blyth's Swifts and Masked Bunting? I assume some Arctic Warblers call or sing to rule out Japanese/Kamchatka...
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    Hirundinidae

    The case for this seems extremely weak to me. It would also require splitting three species of daurica in southeast and east Asia (the samples from Russia, Singapore and China), which are virtually indistinguishable from each other and from striolata in the field. The fact that striolata as...
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    Hirundinidae

    I think the oldest species name is daurica, isn't it? This is surely one of the taxa that would be merged with striolata, probably matching the China or Russia sample in that phylogeny. So the text would be correct that the change would involve moving striolata into daurica - the question is...
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    Three Phylloscopus warblers from Laos?

    First is tricky. My impression is Davison's/Kloss's (I'm not sure which is more likely there) but the crown stripe seems very poorly marked or absent. Second looks like one of the Blyth's complex - Blyth's, Claudia's or Hartert's fokiensis. Note the 'nuthatch' behaviour, perching on the sides...
  7. J

    Taiwan (Hengchun) Waders ID please

    Agree with Marsh Sandpiper, Sharp-tailed Sandpipers and Greater Painted-snipe. I don't think you can identify which species the snipe is from these images - it could be Common, Pintail, Swinhoe's or Latham's.
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    Eastern or Western Yellow Wagtail?

    Although this bird shows similarities to taivana, I think some caution is needed, because I think some intergrades between other subspecies can produce patterns similar to taivana, eg xanthophrys, apparently an intergrade of feldegg and lutea. These may be more likely in the location than a...
  9. J

    please identify my birds in sri lanka 03

    Among the ones missing here: 4. No idea, sorry. I'm not sure that this will be identifiable. 5. White-breasted Waterhen chick 8. The lower bird looks like a Crested Serpent Eagle, I'm not sure about the upper bird. 14 doesn't look like a Magpie-Robin to me - the separation of the black breast...
  10. J

    Erawan NP Thailand - Leafbird, which one...?

    This looks like Golden-fronted to me - quite a bulky bird with orange-yellow on the forehead, large throat patch and blue on the chin. https://macaulaylibrary.org/asset/616841527 https://macaulaylibrary.org/asset/615462040 Blue-winged is a slightly more slender bird, with more extensive and...
  11. J

    Kanchanaburi Thailand - Some kind of Drongo...?

    Habitat is also a useful clue - Crow-billed and Bronzed are forest birds, Black occurs in more open country, which seems to be the case for this bird.
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    Lark Morocco

    I'm not sure that this bird shows any moult difference. The primary fringes don't show as much wear as the tertials & coverts, but they are more protected from the elements because of the overlying feathers. On the rear view, you can see that the primary tips are actually quite worn, similar to...
  13. J

    Snipe and Dove from Mongolia

    The snipe looks like Swinhoe's to me - quite a lot of white in the outer tail, and there doesn't seem to be an obvious change between the central tail feathers and the narrow pin-like feathers, as you would see on Pintailed.
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    West Thailand birds

    Is the minivet Grey-chinned? The pale grey head, whitish chin and greenish upperparts seem a better fit than Long-tailed. Birds in northern Thailand appear to have a yellow throat, not grey as in some other parts of the range. Grey-chinned: https://macaulaylibrary.org/asset/609593347...
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    Tiny bird seen in north-east Thailand

    As others have said, it's possible that the birds you have seen are sunbirds. In fact, sunbirds are not very closely related to hummingbirds. They are from a completely different branch of the bird family tree, but they have evolved to look similar because they share behaviour and diet (feeding...
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