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  1. pbjosh

    Latest IOC Diary Updates

    Yeah sorry I was being a dolt.
  2. pbjosh

    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...
  3. pbjosh

    Latest IOC Diary Updates

    Didn’t they say something about it pushing out later going forward after last year’s late release?
  4. pbjosh

    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.
  5. pbjosh

    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 ;)
  6. pbjosh

    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...
  7. pbjosh

    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...
  8. pbjosh

    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...
  9. pbjosh

    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...
  10. pbjosh

    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...
  11. pbjosh

    Furnariidae

    SACC Proposal 997 - Treat Deconychura longicauda (Long-tailed Woodcreeper) as three species
  12. pbjosh

    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:
  13. pbjosh

    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...
  14. pbjosh

    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...
  15. pbjosh

    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.
  16. pbjosh

    How many cuckoos have you seen?

    That's a good contender for the most amazing picture ever posted to this forum :)
  17. pbjosh

    Antpitta

    Interesting. It’s shorter but certainly still sounds like an Undulated AP. Similar to vocal variation in Scaled. I guess genetics will be necessary as it’s no cut and dry case.
  18. pbjosh

    Not a great picture but is this an american goshawk or coopers hawk? Washington state may 24.

    I've never seen either American nor Eurasian Goshawk soaring, but a comment on Cooper's vs Sharp-shinned: Sharp-shinned tends to soar with the wing held a bit more forward, showing a slight crook at the wrist, whereas Coopers tends to have a very straight leading edge to the wing - another point...
  19. pbjosh

    Eagle, Georgia

    Golden Eagle for me, perhaps 3rd year or otherwise not quite adult - the pale in the tail, while not white, looks transitional to adult plumage. The retained white flashes in the primary coverts and the pale bar along the inner wing coverts all fit subadult golden eagle better than Imperial.
  20. pbjosh

    Ebird moved my checklists?

    This would have been done by a local reviewer. Nothing stopping you from moving them back. Annoyingly there's no way to find out who the local reviewer that did that is to contact them and/or lodge a complaint if you feel it's unwarranted.
  21. pbjosh

    Would you personally tick, given a highly unlikely alternative ID?

    Depends on how highly unlikely. A female Ficedula flycatcher in the Mediterranean in spring - I think the odds of an interesting bird are high enough that without hearing it call or otherwise having some really strong evidence, it's hard to call a lot of these birds. If I see a Band-rumped...
  22. pbjosh

    Taiwan BoP ID please

    I agree with Oriental/Crested Honey-Buzzard, Mountain Hawk-Eagle, and Black Kite.
  23. pbjosh

    Switzerland 2024

    I’ve tried before in Vals. I plan to try in Leuk this time :)
  24. pbjosh

    Switzerland 2024

    I hope to get out again starting next week, my mission this summer is to finally see a Rock Partridge. I’d also like to get to Kaltbrunnerried soon and see if I can find the Icterine Warblers there, I’ve only ever seen a handful of them and always migrants or while looking for other birds so...
  25. pbjosh

    How many cuckoos have you seen?

    I think I'm on 80 by Clements, but Short-toed Coucal and Banded Ground-Cuckoo are heard only so 78 perhaps is fairer.
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