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    Birding China

    Every time there is activity in this thread, I am re-affirmed in my opinion that I will never go to China :)
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    A visitor's guide to European birding portals

    Exactly - most traveling birders thus do not really need up-to-date local info. If you wan to see local birds that are there all the time, then eBird is probably pretty much enough for most places in Europe. But since this work nicely summarizes a lot of obscure local pages with rarities, it's...
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    A visitor's guide to European birding portals

    The sites depend really on whether you want to see common birds or get rarities. You're gonna miss a lot of rare birds in Germany if you don't subsrcibe do club300.de - I am not sure where they get the info from, but a lot of things are not on ornitho.de. As already mentioned, for rarities in...
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    Petition to AOS Leadership on the Recent Decision to Change all Eponymous Bird Names

    Yes, stability is practical and I am general in favor of it. But there surely can be exceptions. Also, the current system is also not perfect w.r.t. stability, since once in a while, people dig out some arcane source proving that someone else had priority and the scientific name changes.
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    Petition to AOS Leadership on the Recent Decision to Change all Eponymous Bird Names

    No, it's not similar. The "original author" did not create the species, he merely happened to be the first person to describe it. There is nothing preventing us from sitting down and deciding to abolish any "Principle" if it's not practical Why should the scientific naming of all species be...
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    Petition to AOS Leadership on the Recent Decision to Change all Eponymous Bird Names

    Haha, maybe the same guide, but not the same edition ... I am not kidding, but if you get the latest edition of Czech translation of Collins, the Czech names for McQueen's and Houbara Bustards are now switched around compared to the previous edition, courtesy of the "Czech nomenclature...
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    Petition to AOS Leadership on the Recent Decision to Change all Eponymous Bird Names

    The amount of people who would be willing to learn scientific names for something that they do for fun cannot be anything that miniscule.
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    Birding in Southern Tuscany and thereabouts

    I seem to be coming to the wrong parts of Italy and at the wrong times - this is just soooo different to what I know from the country (mostly mid-summer visits around Naples, with another one coming this July). How do you, after all of the birds, get a Tarsiger in the area is beyond...
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    Britain's most prolific egg collector, reoffends again.

    The problem with harsh sentencing for things like this is that it would imply even harsher sentencing for more serious crimes - I mean surely, it's not nice to the birds, but no humans were harmed here. Some level of harm due to human insanity simply has to be expected.
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    Two people break 10,000 species, and on the same day? Can it be?

    Apparently seeing 10 thousand bird species is enough to get Jon Hall to admit that birds are somewhat interesting. Peter Kaestner on The Mammalwatching Podcast - Season 3 of the mammalwatching podcast just dropped and our first guest is birding legend Peter Kaestner – Mammal Watching
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    Brown Fish-Owl above Adana

    I have just come back from Turkey, where we spent there nights (~20 hours total) turning the 13-km road-accessible stretch of the Manavgat river valley around Üzümdere upside down, still with no owls. We even met a guided group - while the guide was obviously keen for the guests to avoid any...
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    Equipment discussion: to blimp or not to blimp

    So the point of the blimp is to be able to fly to microphone closer to the birds? :)
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    Two people break 10,000 species, and on the same day? Can it be?

    I love the modern journalism where you just report on what you read on birdforum :)
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    Do you count heard only birds on your life list?

    The "tape argument" is probably a larger concern to the typical "birding tourist" who goes to popular birding destinations (or for local birding in heavily populated areas). But I can assure you, that all times that I heard Desert Owl, there were no people for kilometers around me. Also this is...
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    Latest IOC Diary Updates

    Do we really have the bitching about eponyms everywhere? :)
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