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My more sensible comment about the Monal-Partridges is that I have only visited their range once; I saw one, but the other was our only significant dip (although thinking about it now, we did hear it!). I was using the eponyms; if I had been using the colour names I suspect I might have a...- Welsh Peregrine
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And are the Caroline Islands named after a specific Caroline, or because the natives sing Christmas songs all year? Oops, I mean Yuletide songs as Christmas is patronymic!😉- Welsh Peregrine
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In this case at least, I prefer the Bahasa island names to their translations; it helps me to visualise the key fact that they are named after their island homes. Also thank you Birdforum for teaching me about “Smoky Bay” (after finding there is a place of this name in Australia)!- Welsh Peregrine
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It only deals with the British, Irish and Norwegian populations in any detail.- Welsh Peregrine
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Is the Ptarmigan problem that what we call Willow Grouse is known as Willow Ptarmigan the other side of the pond? This paper only addresses L. lagopus, not L. mutus.- Welsh Peregrine
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Red Grouse is the complaining of the Labour Party! Seriously, it is the British equivalent of Willow Grouse, and would be a British Isles endemic; the supposedly intermediate populations of certain Norwegian islands are genetically separate offshoots of the Scandinavian subspecies. However, if...- Welsh Peregrine
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And Radjah was the spelling I learnt when I first came across the species at Slimbridge in the 1960’s.- Welsh Peregrine
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Mistaken Crossbill? Unrealistic Redpoll?- Welsh Peregrine
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