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Recent content by jhopkins

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    Latest IOC Diary Updates

    ....not to mention spelling.....
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    Petition to AOS Leadership on the Recent Decision to Change all Eponymous Bird Names

    Pay wall. Can you copy it and paste it please?
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    Two people break 10,000 species, and on the same day? Can it be?

    For all its faults, BF has an amazing reputation for what one might call 'forensic birding'!
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    Two people break 10,000 species, and on the same day? Can it be?

    That's interesting. How did you find that?....... as he doesn't show up on any searches.
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    Two people break 10,000 species, and on the same day? Can it be?

    Or there's always 'continuous sound recording'....... I don't want to miss a thing: the benefits of continuous sound recording
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    Two people break 10,000 species, and on the same day? Can it be?

    ......I'd join you in that killing spree too....;);)
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    Two people break 10,000 species, and on the same day? Can it be?

    A further thought. A quick glance at his iGT page suggests that the only species for which a location or date is given are from the current Colombia tour ( i.e. in the few days around reaching 10,000). All other species just name a country. Normally, if transferring records to iGT, at the...
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    Two people break 10,000 species, and on the same day? Can it be?

    If I have read the Manakin piece correctly, they supplied a car and driver...not a guide. I wonder if any of his birding has been guided......
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    Petition to AOS Leadership on the Recent Decision to Change all Eponymous Bird Names

    It used to be called 'politically correct'. This is a longer way of expressing the concept but at least had the merit that those not speaking 'American English' knew what it meant.
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    Petition to AOS Leadership on the Recent Decision to Change all Eponymous Bird Names

    That is the first mention of the word 'woke' in this thread....... so thanks for being the one to invoke it.
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    Petition to AOS Leadership on the Recent Decision to Change all Eponymous Bird Names

    Excellent comments from Jon Dunn. My main concern is that this AOS policy rewrites history and I have an instinctive dislike of that sort of action. I also find it the thin end of a ludicrous wedge. I look forward to that point in the future when we have successfully slayed the 'Climate...
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    Latest IOC Diary Updates

    This is becoming tedious.....below is the entry from the IOC 13.2 update taken from the updates section of the IOC website..... Species Updates IOC Version 13.2...
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    Latest IOC Diary Updates

    And.....once again....see above for the IOC list as per the IOC....not somebody else's version of it. I don't understand why that is so difficult to follow.....if I give the species my own names, it's not the true IOC list.
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    Latest IOC Diary Updates

    I repeat....see above for the correct IOC list per the IOC.
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    Latest IOC Diary Updates

    So it is not the true IOC list.
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