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    link My recent post on The Unknown Andean Condor relates to its decline as a species and genus...

    link My recent post on The Unknown Andean Condor relates to its decline as a species and genus. This includes my English translation of Taczanowski's account of the condor from Ornithologie du Pérou.
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    This is a link with six images of an unusual bird that was photographed in Alabama. It was...

    This is a link with six images of an unusual bird that was photographed in Alabama. It was observed in 2015, and they are not my pictures. I will post it here for anyone to share their opinions as to the identity of this bird species...
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    I have begun to collect the articles for my blog called The Unknown Andean Condor and have...

    I have begun to collect the articles for my blog called The Unknown Andean Condor and have posted them at the given link. They were also posted on Wordpress.
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    The video is also here.

    The video is also here.
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    Thank you. I reported my observation of one on iNaturalist, which includes a video of a male in...

    Thank you. I reported my observation of one on iNaturalist, which includes a video of a male in song.
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    Sketch of Toxostoma bendirei uploaded to Wikimedia Commons. mmslouis

    Sketch of Toxostoma bendirei uploaded to Wikimedia Commons. mmslouis
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    Greetings, I have not contributed for a while on Birdforum.net. I am trying to comprehend the...

    Greetings, I have not contributed for a while on Birdforum.net. I am trying to comprehend the new format of this website in order to submit my own comments or posts. I will also be uploading an image of the Toxostoma bendirei today. mmslouis Pima County, Arizona
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    Blackcap

    news about blackcap I have read a newspaper story about this bird; there is the probability that ornithologists are going to split the identification of this species based upon its migration patterns in Europe. An established population has been migrating to Britain, where I suppose this was...
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    american nightjars/chordeiles

    Not being much of a birdwatcher, often I can't help but to notice. In southern Arizona several yrs ago I noticed, at night, a group of nighthawks flying near a billboard with lights gleaming. As a matter of default to the fact that about all references I have consulted--the more common...
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    Comment by 'MMSLouis' in media 'Westland Petrel'

    This picture turned out great, and is certainly one to use for reference. Usually I don't come across pictures of the petrels with wings folded and at rest, just in flight.
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    Ivory Billed Found!!

    It is interesting that this woodpecker has been rediscovered, along with a growing list of others that were once presumed extinct. I wonder if perhaps the Carolina parakeet might be found again, considering reports of it being sighted up to 1935, (after it was presumed extinct in 1918.) On the...
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    Note on subspp.

    I would also like to add another point I have learned about subspecies. Most subspecies have been described since the beginning of the last century, and they have been described as subspecies; whereas presumably about all types of birds before c.1900 (when the subspecies concept took hold) were...
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    What is your favourite bird of all time?

    Reeves' pheasant I think that the most beautiful species would be the reeves' pheasant, which of course i have never seen. Yet I tend to find some interesting aspects from the dullest of bird families, such as the Tyrannidae
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    Favourite Bird Artist

    William T Cooper William Cooper supplied the illustrations for the book on parrots by Joseph Forshaw. He has also done work for books on kingfishers and the like, birds of paradise, and a set of prints of turacos (not as a book)
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    Looking for a Brazil bird book

    Birds of Brazil in 2006 I am aware of a field guide to the birds of Brazil forthcoming next year
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