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  1. dominic.patagonia

    Aythya spp in Poland - Scaup/Tufted

    Friend just sent me this from Poland. Having been out of the Western Palearctic so long i couldnt give him a 100% answer. Are the circled birds scaup among the tufties? Do young female tufties show this much white at the bill base? I thought they can but now I'm not sure.... Thanks!
  2. dominic.patagonia

    Juvenile Savannah Hawk? Venezuala

    sorry didnt mean to post twice. no idea how to delete it
  3. dominic.patagonia

    Juvenile Savannah Hawk? Venezuala

    Don't have field guide with me here, but this is my best guess. But i know juveniles of both black hawk spp can look very similar? Is it a Savannah? thanks in advance. Dom
  4. dominic.patagonia

    Zeiss Victory SF eye cups - popped off....

    I love my Victory SFs. In fact both my Swaros are sitting on the shelf now mostly. But what's with the terrible eyecup thread. Mine popped off and I can see no way of getting it back without breaking it. There is no thread like on my Swaro ELs. See pic. Any ideas really appreciated! thanks
  5. dominic.patagonia

    caprimulgid, SW Costa Rica

    a very grey common pauraque? Or a lesser nighthawk? thanks!!
  6. dominic.patagonia

    woodcreeper, Osa peninsula, Costa Rica, May, 2005

    Another old (and bad) set of pics here. Not sure if I identified it at the time - probably - but I have a bunch of woodcreepers on my list for that area. I'm torn between Cocoa and Long-tailed. Seems to show features of both... ;)
  7. dominic.patagonia

    ferruginous hawk? Wyoming, July

    Found this going through old photos. Wyoming, 2007, July. It's heavily cropped! The bird has also got its head at a weird angle.... I can't see anything other than a ferruginous hawk. What do others think?
  8. dominic.patagonia

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    mystery - Pamana, pipeline area I have no notes on this recording. I suspect i made it at dawn and it is a canopy species. Sounds quite distant. Given Niels and Eduardo could identify a couple of others i posted, I thought I'd see if anyone can rise to the challenge of this one!! thanks
  9. dominic.patagonia

    Mystery song / call - Panama (Colon, January)

    I think this is a tyrannid of some sort, but its from the memory card for which i lost my notes. Would love it if anyone has ideas. Cant match it to anything obvious on xeno canto cheers!
  10. dominic.patagonia

    Mystery song / which greenlet - Panama

    There are various calls in this sequence - I can hear green shrike-vireo in the background, slaty antshrike at the end. The foreground has a repetitive call which seems to be either lesser greenlet or golden-fronted greenlet - does anyone know which it is? Two notes up, then three notes down...
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    Tyrannid vocalisation, panama, colon province

    Hi, Another one from Panama. This sounds similar to a few neotropical migrant flycatchers (a little like Alder but less buzzy and a little like Acadian but not as squeaky) and unfortunately I don't have the date (somehow its not on the sound file). It could be Dec, Jan or July (made 3 trips that...
  12. dominic.patagonia

    song / call - Panama, July, Colon province

    First bird is a mystery - three note syncopated song with descending last note, then a Black faced ant-thrush calls very close-by, then another mystery - quite faint, immediately after the ant-thrush, a hollow call - possibly a columbid - maybe short-billed pigeon giving a partial song? Can...
  13. dominic.patagonia

    Hummingbird, Costa Rica, Pto Jimenez, March 2005

    Been putting old records into eBird and I found a shot I'd taken that was never identified, or maybe it was at the time - I lost my notes. Have a suspicion but curious what others think. Pacific slope, extreme south Costa Rica, near Panama border. Thanks , good birding!
  14. dominic.patagonia

    migrant passerine flock, san juans, COLORADO

    Curious if anyone can identify what sp. this large flock is? Didnt have binoculars - was hiking in San Juan range, SW Colorado, i believe it was summit of Sneffels peak, so it's quite high - around 14,000 feet, second week september. One pic attached plus a few more here...
  15. dominic.patagonia

    camera / lens combo for Kowa 883

    Hi folks Am finally biting the bullet and going to start digiscoping. Its just too many times when I'm birding and don't feel like lugging my 1Ds and large lens around. I've had a Kowa 883 since they came out and use a combination of prominar wide 30x and the PR. 25 - 60x that everyone uses...
  16. dominic.patagonia

    eBird subspecies

    Am i missing a trick in eBird. I've been ebirding for years and i dont remember having this issue before, but now when i create a list and i'm choosing between subspecies it gives me an anglicised subspecific name. Rather than the latin. This might be straightforward in some cases, for example...
  17. dominic.patagonia

    shrike-tyrant, Provincia Santa Cruz, AR

    Still going through old photos and entering data in eBird, and found this. It looks like a Black-billed shrike-tyrant to me (pale vent/crissum), but we found it sheltering in a friend's barn in an area where great shrike tyrant is much more common than this one. Low altitude steppe, transitional...
  18. dominic.patagonia

    Tough wader to ID, Antofagasta, Chile

    I was going through eBird records and adding old sightings and I found a shorebird picture that went unidentified at the time (no idea why, but wasnt noted on my list). Pics here: https://www.flickr.com/photos/27058465@N04/albums/72157656844537140 Seen late March 2007, on a high altitude...
  19. dominic.patagonia

    Best birding location for August

    Not sure I'm dropping this in the right thread, but i have a couple of weeks to take off in August and wondering where to go for some gentle birding (need to relax a little too as recovering from surgery). The stipulations - (couldn't be that simple right!);) I'd like to get out of the USA...
  20. dominic.patagonia

    HBW Alive online subscription

    I've read lots of reviews of this when it launched a couple years ago, but that was back when the taxonomy was old and the UX was quite clunky. Curious as to recent impressions. Has it improved much? I own about half the books but increasingly think a digital subscription would be better. Am...
  21. dominic.patagonia

    lesser or greater yellowlegs, NJ

    Saw this from the car the other day and pulled over for a quick look without really paying attention, assuming it was a Greater - at least thats what my immediate impression was - from barring on flanks and head and bill proportion. But now i look at the (iphone) pictures its pretty dainty...
  22. dominic.patagonia

    Gitzo GH1720QR- Gitzo's 'birding' head

    Ive read really mixed reviews of these - curious to hear peoples experiences. I got very frustrated today looking at wildfowl in subzero temperatures (NJ in the polar vortex) and realise i need a better head. My old manfrotto is wobbling / or immobile, and nowhere in between.... I heard this...
  23. dominic.patagonia

    Sparrow, Great Sand Dunes National Park, CO, USA

    Going through some of my old photos and I noticed that there is a sparrow lurking in the corner of this shot of a juv Mountain Bluebird. I don't remember IDing it at the time but it was years ago. Song sparrow? Proportions seem odd but it could be the angle of the photo... Curious what others...
  24. dominic.patagonia

    eBird / Clements list - family level cross reference

    All, Curious if anyone knows how to cross reference or merge the eBird / Clements 2014 Checklist 6.9 world taxonomy, which is available as an excel download - http://www.birds.cornell.edu/clementschecklist/download/ with ones own eBird lifelist, which i also have from eBird on excel.... I'd...
  25. dominic.patagonia

    Fish Crow or American, Sandy Springs, Georgia, USA

    Not having much experience with Fish crows I was watching a small group of corvids the other day and the vocalisations were interesting - seemed middway between high nasal sounds of fish crow and regular american crows. Or am i imagining things? Bad photos and sound recording below. Sounds can...
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