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    Latest IOC Diary Updates

    Yeah sorry I was being a dolt.
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    Latest IOC Diary Updates

    2023 update was in October. I do not remember where I read, but I remember reasonably well having read, that future updates would be timed similarly, so if my memory is to be trusted that would mean sometime late Sept / in Oct perhaps. Or perhaps someone with better memory, better google...
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    Latest IOC Diary Updates

    Didn’t they say something about it pushing out later going forward after last year’s late release?
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    Latest IOC Diary Updates

    Certainly suggesting the name that honors the Quechua messengers for the non-migratory form generated some comments and raised eyebrows here and there.
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    Bali/Lombok

    Eaton / Rheindt's "Birds of the Indonesian Archipelago" v2 is the definitive and by far best book for Indonesia outside of W Papua. There are two versions out there, be careful it's the 2nd, and don't buy the hardcover, the covers will just fall off if you use it in the field much ;)
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    Visual effects in binoculars when used with polarisers

    I notice this while using polarized sun glasses. It is extremely problematic / annoying when on the ocean / birding on the water. The color shift is so distracting that I purposefully bought non-polarized sunglasses for pelagic birding. It seems worse with some binoculars than others but it's...
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    Furnariidae

    Reading the whole saga of Rinjani Scops-Owl to me reinforces that the problem is entirely one of human egos - a bit of understandable desire to claim fame, and understandably wanting to protect your research/effort against someone who might sweep in faster than you but this is a bizarre...
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    Furnariidae

    Birds are already kept secret for fear of competing publishing interests. So you end up in a situation where birders are traveling to remote areas and not even knowing there are birds there to look for. They could be seeing the bird and in many cases adding to the knowledge of new species and...
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    Furnariidae

    For the foothill form, I believe you are right, though I guess it could shake out that there is already a described specimen that is a holotype for a subspp that happens to be genetically assignable to that voice group / form. I was present when a voice vouchered specimen was collected in order...
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    Furnariidae

    For this Long-tailed WC proposal, I'm curious to see how SACC votes. I agree that it can be hard to compare WC vocalizations as there is so much individual variation and it can depend so much on a bird's state of agitation. But some differences are also just glaring. I have heard this species in...
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    Furnariidae

    SACC Proposal 997 - Treat Deconychura longicauda (Long-tailed Woodcreeper) as three species
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    Eagle from Southern Switzerland

    I've shared this post / bird to the European Bird ID group on facebook. The same discussions / inability to reconcile the bill with the tail are playing out there :ROFLMAO:
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    Eagle from Southern Switzerland

    The plumage does look fine for Golden Eagle, agreed. It's only one picture (or at least one of the head/bill) but it still strikes me as much more like a Haliaeetus than Aquila. Plenty to ponder in terms of ID'ing from one / limited photos and how strongly Occam's Razor should be applied...
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    Eagle from Southern Switzerland

    Looking at this more, and with the caveat of not knowing details of possible variation of the tail of White-tailed Eagle, I suggest this is an escaped Bald Eagle. Once considering escapes a lot more possibilities arise but I think Stellar’s and Pallas’s can be ruled out on the bill structure and...
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    Eagle from Southern Switzerland

    I don't have a lot of experience with White-tailed Eagle and am no expert on Bald but I'm not sure how this can be an Aquila and not a Haliaeetus with that bill.
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