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    Georgia / Armenia April/May 2022

    Just to chime in RE Caspian Snowcock at Gndasar: Arranged a 4WD tour with Arpa Protected Landscape to view Snowcocks starting at 0500 and received a message from them at 2130 the night before cancelling the trip due to hazardous weather. Not entirely sure what the hazard was as the forecast...
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    Travel insurance for optics

    Can anyone recommend good insurance policies for covering optics when travelling abroad? Preferably providers operating within the UK. I need a policy with up to £3000 in personal items/valuables and a £1000 single item limit (my scope isn't very fancy). I don't have home insurance, as I'm a...
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    Scottish Crossbill - Yes? No? Never?

    Thanks, do you know if anyone's done WGS on Scottish/Common/Parrot or is all the genetic analysis restricted to mtDNA?
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    Scottish Crossbill - Yes? No? Never?

    Do you have the paper showing this to hand? I'd be interested to know the author's methodology. There are several examples of 'good' eco-morphologically distinct species of moth that have indistinguishable mtDNA sequences, for example.
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    Tripod/head recommendations for Leica Televid 77

    Excellent, thanks. Will send Gary an email. And thanks for the tripod recc!
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    Tripod/head recommendations for Leica Televid 77

    Excellent, thank you! I'll have a look at it.
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    Tripod/head recommendations for Leica Televid 77

    Picture of the scope foot and the plate off of the Celestron attached below. Yeah £300 budget for everything.
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    Tripod/head recommendations for Leica Televid 77

    Recently bought my first 'decent' 'scope, a second-hand angled Leica APO Televid 77, and need to buy a good tripod to support it. As it's a popular scope, I wondered if folks here had suggestions as to tripod/head combinations which have worked well with the Televid 77 in the past. I am 6'2"...
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