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    AOS NACC/SACC taxonomic committee governance and structures (no discussions on patronyms)

    When the rock band Oasis split up, Noel Gallagher and Liam Gallagher started touring separately. The guitarist and drummer (Gem Archer and Chris Sharrock) kept playing and touring with both of the resulting two bands. Following the patronym-related announcements, something similar seems to be...
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    Lady Amherst's Pheasant in Bedfordshire still?

    Does anyone know if this species is still showing here (or elsewhere) in 2018? http://bedsbirdclub.org.uk/where-to-see-the-last-lady-amhersts-pheasant/
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    Seabirds vacating the caribbean when the Merlins come after migrants

    This paper may be of interest to this forum: Digby et al. 2016. Pelagic surveys in the Colombian Caribbean reveal changes in marine bird distribution patterns during the migration period. Conservacion Colombiana 24: 37-39...
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    Lovebirds (parrots) - Playa Blanca

    Just back from Canary Islands trip. Nothing that exciting to report in general terms, except that in the Playa Blanca area, there seemed to be quite a lot (tens) of lovebirds Agapornis. Mostly Fischer's Lovebirds, but there were a few blue Masked Lovebirds also and other variations. I suppose...
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    New commissioners

    I did not see anyone pick up on this. There is now an ornithologist on ICZN. http://iczn.org/node/40596 In December 2015, a meeting of the ICZN was held in Berlin in conjunction with the International Union of Biological Sciences. At this meeting, major changes took place affecting the...
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    LBB Gull - Miami

    A nice adult Lesser Black-backed Gull on the beach in north Miami this am (have some photos). I know this is rare elsewhere in the Caribbean from my work in the southern end of the region, but not sure in this area. If anyone is interested in details of the record, let me know. Thomas
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    Family names, authors and synonymies

    Does anyone know of a good resource for this? There are various decent sources for species and genus names, but I have never come across anything good for higher up. About to press the send button on a paper and just wondering if I have missed anything!
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    Magellanic Cormorant attacks ornithological innuendo!

    http://www.museum.lsu.edu/~Remsen/SACCprop535.html Oh well... looks like a more sensible name will prevail: "I was down near the beach with my girlfriend and it was amazing, we had a Rock Shag." "I was down near the beach with my girlfriend and it was amazing, we had a Magellanic Cormorant."
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    IOC vs SACC

    Just wondering, has anyone out there ever done a delta between these two lists. There are various obvious ones and probably a draw on the sense of them: E.g. Zimmerius Tyrannulets, Eastern/Western Woodhaunters: IOC is clearly right and more progressive; but splitting Striped Manakins? It...
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    Symposium on Neotropical Birds at NHM, London - 29 October

    This symposium may be of interest to members of this forum: Birds of South and Middle America – recent advances in knowledge Joint British Ornithologists’ Club/Neotropical BirdClub/Natural History Museum one-day symposium, 29 Oct 2011 Flett Theatre, Natural History Museum, London SW7 5BD...
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    Unwanted replacement genus names

    This paper is probably of interest to the discussion group. It concerns some researchers in Turkey who trawl random taxonomic groups for generic synonymies and establish their own replacement names, all honoring their own institution, CESA: http://www.mapress.com/zootaxa/2011/f/zt02933p064.pdf...
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    Opticron ES 665 to Nikon P6000

    I've just bought an Opticron GS 665 ED with a 16-48 lens. I was thinking of getting a Nikon P6000. (I was not impressed with the Samsung-Opticron digiscoping set). Does anyone know how to connect these two cameras without using a universal adaptor? I'd like to be able to pop on and pop off...
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