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Recent content by raymie
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AOU-NACC Proposals 2024
The fact that "Tropical Eastern Pacific Booby" is a proposed common name gives me a strong sense of dread.- raymie
- Post #72
- Forum: Bird Taxonomy and Nomenclature
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AOU-NACC Proposals 2024
So where in the Pacific does one see one species, or the other, or both?- raymie
- Post #68
- Forum: Bird Taxonomy and Nomenclature
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AOU-NACC Proposals 2024
That's the nesting ranges, but of course boobies wander far at sea.- raymie
- Post #52
- Forum: Bird Taxonomy and Nomenclature
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AOU-NACC Proposals 2024
If you saw any in Florida they would be Northern. It's a Nearctic-Neotropical split.- raymie
- Post #51
- Forum: Bird Taxonomy and Nomenclature
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AOU-NACC Proposals 2024
Including me! Does anyone know what the range of the new Brown Booby taxa would be? Do the two overlap anywhere?- raymie
- Post #47
- Forum: Bird Taxonomy and Nomenclature
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AOU-NACC Proposals 2024
Surprised to see the Herring Gull split there!- raymie
- Post #45
- Forum: Bird Taxonomy and Nomenclature
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Maybe 2 Vireos, South Padre Island Convention Ctr, TX, USA
Photos 1 and 2 show a Warbling Vireo. Not sure about the others, but thinking probably Bell's.- raymie
- Post #4
- Forum: Bird Identification Q&A
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Is this a Turkey Vulture?
It's very possible this is a dumped pet. It's also possible they are an established introduced species in the area, there's lots of local established populations that are undocumented due to a general lack of interest in this species by most birders.- raymie
- Post #7
- Forum: Bird Identification Q&A
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Scottish Crossbill - Yes? No? Never?
The splits were made with the desire to further split Red Crossbill in the future, it's just that we don't have enough info to fully understand the diversity within it yet.- raymie
- Post #66
- Forum: Birds & Birding
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Britain's most prolific egg collector, reoffends again.
This kind of thing is bizarrely frequent in British law, to the point where people will fake a mental disorder to get out of jail time. Edwin Rist, who stole potentially millions of dollars worth of specimens from the British Museum, got no jail time due to an Asperger's diagnosis that he has...- raymie
- Post #58
- Forum: Birds & Birding
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Swainson's Thrush? Brooklyn, NY, 2015 / re-identification requested
Swainson's.- raymie
- Post #2
- Forum: Bird Identification Q&A
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Age of first breeding of the Pygmy Cormorant? (and a rant about ChatGPT hallucinations)
I would recommend not asking ChatGPT for info like this. Try Birds of the World. If Birds of the World doesn't have any info, then yeah, it's unknown.- raymie
- Post #3
- Forum: Information Wanted
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Laughing Falcon on Merlin
Merlin works a lot of the time, but it also often gets things wrong. I would disregard those two IDs, they are nearly impossible. American Coot has been recorded in the UK only a handful of times ever (mostly in the Shetlands) and Laughing Falcon has never been recorded in the UK (and almost...