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Recent content by Mike Earp

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    Epping Forest…not so much an ID, but certainly a first for me.

    Due to moult?
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    Pittidae

    If Pitta guajana is as Laurent explains the type of Pitta then surely it can't be placed in Hydrornis, which was published after Pitta.
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    Linnet or Twite -- West Mongolia

    Doesn't the lighter area around the eye and the absence of a white wingbar make this a Linnet?
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    Trochilidae

    This
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    Heterophasia desgodinsi kingi Eames, JC, 2002

    I think all subsequent "editions" were in fact unaltered reprints.
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    Trochilidae

    Link doesn't work for me but View of Phylogenetic relationships of the Mangrove Hummingbird, “Amazilia” boucardi (Apodiformes: Trochilidae) of Costa Rica | Revista de Biología Tropical does.
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    Why are my Little Stints bigger than my Temminck's Stints? Dushanbe, Tajikistan

    Sanderling wouldn't have the hind toe that is visible on at least one of the larger birds
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    Help for this bird

    Looks like Sooty-headed Bulbul Pycnonotus aurigaster
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    Massachusetts US today. Funny looking thing

    American Woodcock
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    Photo taken n banks of Dodder river- Ireland

    Greenfinch
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    Links to digitized versions of original sources of bird names

    If there is a typo it's by Coues unless Jobling is misquoting him:
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    Links to digitized versions of original sources of bird names

    Jobling is quoting Coues (1864). See here for the 1748 introduction of Procellaria by Linnaeus:
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    Links to digitized versions of original sources of bird names

    1748 not 1746? See here.
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    Brabant Netherlands - Meadow Pipit this time?

    Woodlark
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    Unknown galliform? Lower Klamath Wildlife Refuge, N. California, US

    Not in range. I hesitate to say not at all as I think the character is shared with e.g. Japanese/Green Pheasant.
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