Welsh Peregrine
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I was just replying to the Madagascar discussion, not offering a species; I am sure the Sunbird-Asity has already been played.
Yes, it has. Very early on, as it turns out.I was just replying to the Madagascar discussion, not offering a species; I am sure the Sunbird-Asity has already been played.
I can add another sunbird:A bit tenuous - connected to the last discussion of the Sunbird-Asity as opposed to the last bird played...
If we can do that, we have:
#9657 Sao Tome Sunbird
The closest I can get to a sunbird is a hummingbird. And the closest I can get to a sunbird with a blue head, is a hummer with a purple back.
So here is
#9659 Purple-backed Sunbeam
If we stay in the rufous theme (no more sunbirds, not even more hummers), I haveAnd the closest I can get to a sunbeam is a sunbird, this one seen during our very last hour in the Udzungwas:
#9660 Rufous-winged Sunbird
Nice bird! I don't have any tanagers lift, but I'm happy to keep the rufous theme, just going at tiny bit larger:If we stay in the rufous theme (no more sunbirds, not even more hummers), I have
# 9661 Rufous-Browed Hemispingus
A bird that took a full day, a very very cold night and some hours in the morning to find and 'clean up' Bosque Unchog, that is until those tapaculos were split!
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Sure, have a few more rufousy things, moving on to Cameroon:I'm keeping the Rufous theme, and hope we can continue a bit more (I have 2 more after this one):
#9663 Rufous-eared Brush-finch
noooo, that was one still on my list!Sure, have a few more rufousy things, moving on to Cameroon:
#9664 Rufous Cisticola
noooo, that was one still on my list!
I'm sure you have plenty more cards to play, but I have to stay in the new world (and a bit of Africa) in order to play this game, so here is
#9665 Rufous-breasted (aka Leymebamba) Antpitta
Seen near Villa Rica, Peru, but no picture.
If you could stay in the antpitta theme, I can play the last 2 gnateaters... (but no obligations whatsoever!)
Well, that one was on my listI have to give up on the birds with Rufous in the name. I still have something Chestnut, so I have to resort to the description / color of the bird:
Female is dark tan-rufous, brighter on wing, almost all feathers with fine black bars (most conspicuous on upperparts and breast; upperwing with uniformly rufous primaries, basal part of primaries often brighter rufous; underwing rufous, underwing-coverts finely black-barred; bare parts as for male.
#9667 Bernier's Vanga, Masoala Peninsula, Madagascar 2012 (the last true Vanga on the list)
That's one that is severely threatened and I almost feel I should go now before all are being captured by the relentless (sad) bird trade...Well, that one was on my list
But I'm fine with chestnut as a color - especially with a really handsome laugher (actually more rufous ears though...)!
#9668 Chestnut-eared Laughingthrush
Yes, horribly sad with the bird trade in Vietnam and IndonesiaThat's one that is severely threatened and I almost feel I should go now before all are being captured by the relentless (sad) bird trade...
I have
#9669 Northern Chestnut-breasted Wren
I don't have a Laughingthrush anymore, so the closest I can get is a Thrush, readily found on the same 'circuit' of NE India but in Arunachal Pradesh:Yes, horribly sad with the bird trade in Vietnam and Indonesia
Keeping with the chestnut theme, this one frpm Assam:
#9670 Chestnut-backed Laughingthrush
A dull brown bird with a pale breast, I can only link with:
#9673 Cundinamarca Antpitta.
link to ebird picture checking my imagination linking these species