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  1. awiner

    AOU-NACC Proposals 2024

    Aside from the mind-boggling odds against finding a Eurasian Sparrowhawk in the extremely limited range of these (there's still no records in the Americas, and if we ever get one it's much more likely to be in the Lesser Antilles than the Greater), I think the typical yellow eye would be a dead...
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    AOU-NACC Proposals 2024

    The Caribbean subspecies (I've only seen Hispaniolan - the Puerto Rican one is critically endangered, and I haven't been to Cuba yet) are very distinctive, with obvious rufous or buffy faces. Check it out - this is a really distinctive bird: https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/144519620
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    AOU-NACC Proposals 2024

    T.a. clarus is typically considered the subspecies found on Trinidad. (eBird includes this as part of the range of clarus; IOC omits it.)
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    AOU-NACC Proposals 2024

    ... I was so very confused by the proposal on this point: it doesn't mention tobagensis at all, and its text about albicans is: (11) albicans—This taxon occurs both on Trinidad and in northern mainland South America This doesn't match up at all with either eBird or IOC taxonomy. But...
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    Name a Bird You've Photographed

    3176. Hangnest Tody-Tyrant, Hemitriccus nidipendulus - Brazil Another videograb, this one of a juvenile.
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    Name a Bird You've Photographed

    3173. Serra do Mar Bristle Tyrant Pogonotriccus difficilis Brazil 2006 (from a video)
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    Name a Bird You've Photographed

    Another furnarid, 3163. Many-striped Canastero, Asthenes flammulata Ecuador 2000
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    Name a Bird You've Photographed

    Well, we made our way to furnarids one way or another, so another highland Peruvian furnarid: 3144. Slender-billed Miner Geositta tenuirostris Peru 2000
  9. awiner

    Name a Bird You've Photographed

    A duplicate of #3126 yesterday
  10. awiner

    Name a Bird You've Photographed

    3128. Diademed Tanager, Stephanophorus diadematus Brazil A grab from a video taken long ago.
  11. awiner

    Name a Bird You've Photographed

    And back to the last "Stripe-headed Tanager" 3125. Hispaniolan Spindalis
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    Name a Bird You've Photographed

    3123. Puerto Rican Spindalis, Spindalis portoricensis
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    Name a Bird You've Photographed

    3118. Hook-billed Vanga, Vanga curvirostris
  14. awiner

    Name a Bird You've Photographed

    3042. Crested Drongo, Dicrurus forficatus Madagascar, 2000
  15. awiner

    Name a Bird You've Photographed

    3039. Scaly-breasted Thrasher, Allenia fusca St. Lucia
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