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    Gonocephalus grandis?

    I think its a Robinson's Forest Dragon (Malayodracon robinsonii)
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    Petition to AOS Leadership on the Recent Decision to Change all Eponymous Bird Names

    I think the big problem is just trying to come up with a single, 'official' name, you can have 1000's of columns in excel so there's no real need for it. There's actually quite a few Maori names which are used internationally & are the 'official' English name - Kea, Kakapo, Kaka, Kiwi, Kokako...
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    Petition to AOS Leadership on the Recent Decision to Change all Eponymous Bird Names

    You'll just have to find some non-white people who were involved in the genocide of white people or the taking of their land, destruction of their culture & language, kept white people as slaves & never looked at a bird in their lives but somebody thought they should have a bird named after them! 😁
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    Petition to AOS Leadership on the Recent Decision to Change all Eponymous Bird Names

    Thanks Paul, yep another record breaking season - 38 chicks fledged, or almost fledged, last few should go this week Just to go back to your previous post briefly & try & explain the point I didn't really make - international birders don't seem to be bothered by 'official' OSNZ bird names in...
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    Petition to AOS Leadership on the Recent Decision to Change all Eponymous Bird Names

    Sorry Paul, I guess invested was the wrong word, I was going to say angry but decided not to
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    Petition to AOS Leadership on the Recent Decision to Change all Eponymous Bird Names

    But it's the AOS, I don't understand why non-Americans are getting so invested, just ignore it, it doesn't need to affect you
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    Fuegian Snipe: Chile, March 2025

    This is probably the bird I most want to see in the world, I'd love to join you but I'll be working - if circumstances change I'll be in touch for sure!
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    Help needed to find the right destination

    I've been several times in the last 10 years or so, I love it there! I always hire a car at the airport & drive thete, a car isn't essential once it's there but it's really handy for getting to the further away trails or popping down to the gap Steven's Place is basically a bed & breakfast...
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    New Zealand - North Island

    I think you've got a flock of Banded Dotterels and a single New Zealand Dotterel
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    Help needed to find the right destination

    Can't recommend Steven's Place enough at Frasers Hill in Malaysia, got everything you're looking for!
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    Name a Bird You've Seen 2

    An anagram of Chestnut-bellied Imperial Pigeon, if you use some letters more than once and don't use quite a few others at all 9528. Tristan Thrush I think I'm definitely out now
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    Equipment suggestion for recording owls for research

    I use a zoom H5 a lot for nocturnal recording, mostly seabirds not owls, haven't seen a owl for years! The recorder is great but the XY capsule isn't brilliant, unless birds are very noisy and close, so you'll need an external mic if you want to get recordings from 100+m away
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    Name a Bird You've Seen 2

    Wahne is very similar to Wahine, Maori for woman, St Helena was presumably a woman 9395. St Helena Plover I'm out now!
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    Name a Bird You've Seen 2

    Rachel Engel heads the Macquarie Group Foundation, EMEA (Europe, Middle East and Africa), the philanthropic arm of Macquarie Group 9392 Macquarie Island Shag
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    Name a Bird You've Seen 2

    Justice Hunstein presided over the 2002 appeal to the Supreme Court of Georgia by Walter Boyd on two counts of murder 9390 Boyd's Shearwater
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    Name a Bird You've Seen 2

    Pretty much a rail 9378 Subantarctic Snipe
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    Name a Bird You've Seen 2

    Tommy Solomon was the last 100% Moriori 9346 Chatham Island Warbler
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    Name a Bird You've Seen 2

    Dull enough? Just grey really 9334 Kerguelen Petrel
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    another albatross from the gallery

    Looks good to me
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    Name a Bird You've Seen 2

    More white in the wings: 9302 Chatham Island Shag
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    Name a Bird You've Seen 2

    Chrissie Hynde wrote the Christmas song 2000 miles 9276. Christmas Island Swiflet
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    Name a Bird You've Seen 2

    I think its spelled Gillian
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    Name a Bird You've Seen 2

    There's sisters from Pitt Island called Celine and Celestine 9271. Pitt Island Shag
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    Name a Bird You've Seen 2

    Another island endemic rail with no roads to get to it: 9234 Inaccessible Island Flightless Rail
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    Name a Bird You've Seen 2

    And an island bird with a red bill: 9232 Gough Island Moorhen
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