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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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    Note on subspp.

    An interesting observation on subspp. from one who has only begun to understand the nature of taxonomy--It seems apparent that no subspecies name can be used in a particular genus if a species already has that name taken. Therefore, they are recognized as individual taxons within a genus...
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    Note on dubious hummingbird spp.

    This info. certainly is helpful in understanding hummingbirds. I also suppose that many other major South American familia--(like the sub-oscines passeriforms) have a significant # of dubious spp that have been included in various checklists.
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    Note on dubious hummingbird spp.

    This may already be well established knowledge, but the Howard and Moore checklist, 2nd edn. (1991), which I personally use as my own reference, lists no fewer than 15 spp. of Trochilidae which are considered dubious, and not even subspp. of other hummingbirds. They are-- Threnetes grzimeki...
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    On the sale of specimens

    I am an enthusiast in the nature-art relation of birds. knowing that many naturalist-artists before my time used the actual specimen, or skin, for assistance in their work (and something that is still done today with museum skins used in field guide illustration), I would like to know about any...
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    Comment by 'MMSLouis' in media 'Greenfinch'

    This type of bird, to me, is not the most interesting; however, your picture is of a kind that makes it interesting and gives it a unique quality. Most field guide illustrations and even photographs don't do this.
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    Howard and Moore 2003 list

    I was wondering if anyone has seen this particular list (by E Dickinson) and, genrrally, how does it differ in terms of familiy arrangements and numbers of spp. with the prior edition from 1991, which i am familiar with.?? Also, was there ever printed, as I vaguely recall, a "revised 2nd"...
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    Any new species left to find ?

    Yes to question, and new one posed.. Every year roughly 4--10 are discovered and this does not include subspp. being elevated to full specific rank. (interestinly, before c1930 most ornithologists did not consider "trinomials" or subspecies rankings, and all varieties were considered spp. Now...
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    What is the generic synonym of Ptilochloris?

    From original post Ptilochloris buckleyi is equivalent to Laniisoma elegans, or, Laniisoma (elegans) buckleyi, the shrike-like cotinga, an endangered sp. The reference is correct from lassa8 as to where I saw this. Thanks all for the info.
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    What is the generic synonym of Ptilochloris?

    Does anyone know the generic synonym of the above generic term, a passerine I believe authored by Swainson. the site abebooks.com features an illustration of a {Ptilochloris buckleyi} which is interesting considering the juvenile spec. figured in the picture (the head looks like a pincushion)...
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    Cicadabird "Coracina sula"

    Thank you! Thank you for telling me this
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