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  1. sicklebill

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    I think it's like with many Arabic names, with non-standardised versions of spelling, don't really care either way, we went through all this with Macgregor/MacGregor's Bowerbird and either seemed fine to me. I don't have a problem with Spot-breasted Cuckoo Dove.
  2. sicklebill

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    Wetar and Timor are in Sunda, not Australasia
  3. sicklebill

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    It's also known as Black-fronted Dotterel here in Australia where it is almost an endemic, and we dislike having overseas names imposed on us, my general rule is use the name in the standard country field guides unless there is some overriding reason to change.
  4. sicklebill

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    There is also an issue here with Santa Cruz no longer being the name of the province, which is Temotu, so ideally that name will replace Santa Cruz and avoid the problem of the nominate melanolaema not actually being from Santa Cruz!
  5. sicklebill

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    Arafura Fantail still works as Northern Territory abuts the Arafura Sea. Kind of like Supertramp Fantail but awaiting to see what they do with the even more supertramp Rufous Fantail
  6. sicklebill

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    I really want to see what IOC will do with the Rufous Fantail complex, must be imminent as they work through this genus
  7. sicklebill

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    Going backwards fast with African species especially, generally no surprises with the lumps except Singing Bushlark with Horsfields/Australian Bushlark.. 11000 extant species is receding.
  8. sicklebill

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    Place your bets for what will be 11000......
  9. sicklebill

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    Have we hit 11000 species yet? Must be very close
  10. sicklebill

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    I got 14 splits and 4 lumps and am now almost on the magic 50%, though at my current rate it'll still be a while. I have no problem with counting heard birds, unlike so many.
  11. sicklebill

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    15 splits and 7 lumps for me so far based on IOC 12.2 and 13.1, so ahead of the game still
  12. sicklebill

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    Great to see Amber Mt Rock Thrush back, that was always such an obvious split, and the long overdue shrike-tits.
  13. sicklebill

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    In Australia we get mongolus and stegmanni, atrifrons and schaeferi are listed by IOC as wintering in S China and the Greater Sundas, and for Cambodia and Thailand only schaeferi is listed for those countries in the respective Lynx field guides
  14. sicklebill

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    Good to see some better English names being adopted
  15. sicklebill

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    See DMW's commenet about the name Common as applied to the gull: The derivation of the name "Common" supposedly derives from its habit of nesting inland on "common land", rather than a reference to its abundance. Seems a good name to me and the one I've always used for the Palaearctic ones
  16. sicklebill

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    Woo-hoo, 6 ticks there since May 22, this may well be the only way to get any this year as Australia remains closed and the vaccine rollout is a shambles.
  17. sicklebill

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    Thanks for tallying it up Paul, I knew it was very close. On to 12,000 now
  18. sicklebill

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    Wow, the most potential splits for ages, they have finally got round to looking at the New Guinea proposals as in the two recent field guides and HBW/BirdLife, and very pleased to see the Solomons boobooks being re-evaluated. Still waiting on Common (Mew) Gull though......
  19. sicklebill

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    Australian birds are listed in Christidis and Boles (2008) as being both chinensis and tigrina
  20. sicklebill

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    I meant more will have evolved at this rate. I've seen two on Fiji, one in the Solomons plus the rather uniform New Guinea birds so far, and so many are little known and hard to find.
  21. sicklebill

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    Ah yes, I reckon something like 28 species to come, but the rate they are going there will be more......I need to go see the remnant New Caledonian population on some small island, worrying how so many of the island ones are becoming hard to find.
  22. sicklebill

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    A lucky pick-up at Km 23 on Dasyueshan, at the fruiting tree, where we saw single female or immature birds on two days. Good to see this very distinctive taxon split by most now, been waiting since I first saw it in 2003!
  23. sicklebill

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    sorry....
  24. sicklebill

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    Fynbos (/ˈfeɪnbɒs/; Afrikaans pronunciation: [ˈfɛinbos] meaning fine-leaved plants) is a small belt of natural shrubland or heathland vegetation located in the Western Cape and Eastern Cape provinces of South Africa. This area is predominantly coastal and mountainous, with a Mediterranean...
  25. sicklebill

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    Me too, I thought that was convincing, but glad they didn't buy the PSC split of the turacos!
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