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    Mr W. B. Alexander, and "his" Albatross

    In H G Alexander's Seventy Years of Birdwatching (1974), his brother W B Alexander is invariably referred to as Wilfrid. That book and Duncan Wood's are both great reads – in my opinion.
  2. M

    Mr W. B. Alexander, and "his" Albatross

    Not that further confirmation is needed, but I note that Wilfrid's name was spelt that way in Horace Alexander: 1889 to 1989 - Birds and Binoculars (2003) by J Duncan Wood.
  3. M

    Lanner Falcon Juv or Augur Buzzard Juv

    And oops from me too.
  4. M

    Lanner Falcon Juv or Augur Buzzard Juv

    Why not? It isn't a Lanner or Augur Buzzard.
  5. M

    Lanner Falcon Juv or Augur Buzzard Juv

    African Hawk-Eagle
  6. M

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

    Due to moult?
  7. M

    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.
  8. M

    Linnet or Twite -- West Mongolia

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

    Trochilidae

    This
  10. M

    Heterophasia desgodinsi kingi Eames, JC, 2002

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

    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.
  12. M

    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
  13. M

    Help for this bird

    Looks like Sooty-headed Bulbul Pycnonotus aurigaster
  14. M

    Massachusetts US today. Funny looking thing

    American Woodcock
  15. M

    Photo taken n banks of Dodder river- Ireland

    Greenfinch
  16. M

    Links to digitized versions of original sources of bird names

    If there is a typo it's by Coues unless Jobling is misquoting him:
  17. M

    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:
  18. M

    Links to digitized versions of original sources of bird names

    1748 not 1746? See here.
  19. M

    Brabant Netherlands - Meadow Pipit this time?

    Woodlark
  20. M

    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.
  21. M

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

    I'd say definitely female Ring-necked Pheasant based on white below eye. See e.g.
  22. M

    Siberia

    Only species regularly breeding in Siberia are included; those of marginal occurrence (in geographic sense) or occasional breeders are not included. Due to this, the paper is not an avifauna of Siberia. The OD given for Cygnus bewickii (on page 288) is, I think, wrong. See here.
  23. M

    Ammomanes deserti annae Meinertzhagen, R 1923 and others

    Her not him.
  24. M

    The Vanishing Mew Gull

    Andy, does "already" mean "subsequently to your posting it here"?
  25. M

    The Vanishing Mew Gull

    The Vanishing Mew Gull: A Guide to the Bird Names of the Western Palaearctic (Ray Reedman April 2024) - details here.
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