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    Name a Bird You've Seen 2

    The golden gaudiness is on full display on #9338 Northern Shriketit
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    Name a Bird You've Seen 2

    Same family, same location, but lose the white #9306 Black Imperial Pigeon
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    Name a Bird You've Seen 2

    Another pied bird from the Bismarcks: 9304 White-backed Woodswallow
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    Name a Bird You've Seen 2

    Another Babbler, this time from Kenya #9275 Hinde's Babbler
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    Name a Bird You've Seen 2

    And another small grayish Tapaculo, #9236, Utcubamba Tapaculo.
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    Name a Bird You've Seen 2

    Ursula means "little bear." And within the range of the world's smallest bear, the Sun Bear, you'll find: #9129 Grey-breasted Babbler
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    Name a Bird You've Seen 2

    Another brownish Bismarck bird #9187 Bismarck Fantail
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    Name a Bird You've Seen 2

    Good catch And on nearby islets: #9174 Bismarck Black Myzomela
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    Name a Bird You've Seen 2

    Also in PNG (and back to New Ireland): #9172 Ribbon-tailed Drongo
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    Name a Bird You've Seen 2

    Another bird with red in its plumage: #9169 New Ireland Myzomela
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    Fringillidae

    I'm keen on this at least, IF Sylviidae and Paradoxornithidae are to be kept separate. Myzornis, being sister to the rest of Paradoxornithidae, is a very different looking bird from the others. My first preference though is to keep Sylviidae and Paradoxornithidae merged (and to keep Timaliidae...
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    Certhioidea

    Was Cantorchilus griseus sampled?
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    2024 Targets

    My target is minimum one lifer--I try to get one every calendar year, which is getting trickier to do in years when I'm not traveling somewhere new (I don't know yet if I'll be travelling anywhere this year). There are a few low-density species I could still get locally if I'm lucky. I picked up...
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    Your silliest/most entertaining/unlikely birding accomplishments

    In early 2002, I picked up a few lifers while transiting through Hong Kong. I then hopped on a plane, crossed the dateline, landed in Vancouver, and within an hour or so picked up Western Grebe as a lifer at a time of day (same date) that was earlier than at least two of my lifers in Hong Kong...
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    Poll - Do you agree or disagree with the AOS's recent decision to abandon the use of eponymous bird names?

    This story is not quite as clear-cut as it's been made out to be. See this bit of reporting on James Sligo Jameson.
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    Comment by 'thyoloalethe' in media 'Pied Avocet'

    Beautiful image
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    AOS to discard patronyms in English names

    Jimmy Kimmel has now jumped in on this story! Scroll ahead to 9:40
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    Undescribed

    This rang a bell, and I eventually found a this old article mentioning the Oxpecker published sometime between 1996 and 1998 (they use "Zaire" instead of Congo). They also make reference to the following potentially undescribed species: a Swallow from Ethiopia an Akalat from eastern DR Congo a...
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    Pantanal, Brazil

    Thanks--looks like you did really well. I'll go through your ebird checklists more carefully when I get a chance.
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    Pantanal, Brazil

    Thanks! Sounds like a decent outfit. I'll keep them in mind, although I'm not entirely convinced that they'll be able to get me some of my targets or be able to identify all the LBJs, since they don't appear to be particularly bird-specialized. If I were to do it all on my own I'd prefer to have...
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    Pantanal, Brazil

    I'm looking to set up a trip to the Pantanal (Mato Grosso, Brazil) this fall with Birding Pantanal. I have no firm dates yet--sometime in September or October, and while October is preferable (the largest numbers of species occur then), I can't do the first week of October. The trip would be a...
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    Latest IOC Diary Updates

    I found the following paper: Williams E.H., Bunkley-Williams L. An unnecessary replacement name for Ichthyophaga Syromiatnikova 1949 (Platyhelminthes: Prolecithophora) under Article 56.2; and an unnecessary emendation under Article 33.2.3 and the correct spelling of Icthyophaga Lesson 1843...
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    Non-Europeans what European bird would you like to see?

    Pin-tailed Sandgrouse--and the nominate race from the Iberian peninsula seems more richly coloured than birds living outside of Europe.
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    Long-tailed Woodnymph

    Berryman A.J., Collar N.J., Crozariol M.A., Gussoni C.O.A., Kirwan G.M. & Sharpe C.J., 2023. The distribution, ecology and conservation status of the long-tailed woodnymph Thalurania watertonii. Ornithology Research 31: 1-12. Compilation and scrutiny of all accessible specimen and observer...
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    What’s your nemesis bird?

    I was within range of Spotted, Chestnut, and Cinnamon. I was at a couple of good sites for Spotted near Canberra and Brisbane at least, but alas, not so much as a peep at any of them. That was back in 2001 when they weren't considered a separate family from Whipbirds, and now that they are...
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