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    Green Listing 2023 - Joint Thread

    Beginning a new one for next year?
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    Green Listing 2023 - Joint Thread

    If it's about literally 'seeing' them, that must be pretty hard indeed, and I haven't managed to do that either (though I gave up on trying to observe one from a distance relatively early on and didn't want to catch a tick due to coming closer to it).
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    Green Listing 2023 - Joint Thread

    Glad for your find. After some consideration, I still find myself at a loss with regard to the habitat differences (save for the fact that they exist). For the record, I'll now quote eBird: Makes sense for Common Nightingale. For Thrush Nightingale, I think we've both observed it within...
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    Green Listing 2023 - Joint Thread

    Luckily, I live near some quite extensive damp grassland, so there are at least 4 Grasshopper Warblers holding territory. There's also a decent selection of rails singing at night (from what I see on the local eBird hotspot's page), which I am yet to discover. I managed to add Great Reed...
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    Green Listing 2023 - Joint Thread

    After getting Lesser Whitethroat a day too late, I finally got Wood Warbler on the same day as Xenospiza. Apart from that, I added Common Grasshopper Warbler today, and also had close and extended views of a Eurasian Wryneck (on the list already) flying around right above me, perching a few...
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    Green Listing 2023 - Joint Thread

    Long before I started birding, there was a vagrant Little Auk on a freshwater canal some 10 km from where I live, 240 km inland and 670 km from the verge of its range. (I don't think I could've resisted twitching that one, too.) The Ring-bill in Europe was a twitch of a known individual.
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    Green Listing 2023 - Joint Thread

    I chanced upon an article about Accipiter taxonomy some time ago and was hoping they would. I see they have American Herring Gull as well, although that's probably a much older addition.
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    Green Listing 2023 - Joint Thread

    I've done some catching-up today, observing a total of 52 species, including six ducks, four finches, both treecreepers, Long-tailed Tit, Reed Bunting and a singing Chiffchaff. 16 of those were new to my green list. I also saw lots of nice bright blue flowers in an abandoned garden next to a...
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    Green Listing 2023 - Joint Thread

    Why don't they lump them like Dark-eyed Juncos? EDIT: A significant part was edited out. EDIT 2: The question comes partly from frustration, but I'm also genuinely interested why. I guess this is a situation similar to the Bean Goose complex, but perhaps progressing faster (the paper outlined...
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    Green Listing 2023 - Joint Thread

    I've read the ending of that paper and it distinguishes between (phenotypic) leucocephalos and (phenotypic) 'pure' leucocephalos, and then the two types of hybrids, so not all hybrids are regarded as hybrids, which is not genetically accurate, but somewhat makes sense. On the other hand, given...
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    Green Listing 2023 - Joint Thread

    Thanks for that. Judging by the pictures in this paper: https://www.researchgate.net/figure/Head-colouration-of-males-of-Yellowhammer-Geelgors-Emberiza-citrinella-a-and-Pine_fig3_285288567, I went through eBird's photos of Yellowhammer for Poland and reported 10 pictures and counting as...
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    Green Listing 2023 - Joint Thread

    The UK list now has both of its category C species in black. While I was tidying it up some time ago, I put them in red, mimicking the layout of the European and world lists, without giving it a second thought. Not sure about the Black Swan, so I left it as is (I never changed individual...
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    Green Listing 2023 - Joint Thread

    Makes sense to me if category C can be sorted out (admissible in Poland). EDIT: A seperate list of C, D & E categories would be one way.
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    Green Listing 2023 - Joint Thread

    The red species are (currently) those that are in category C or lower, and--from what I understand--they always lag behind categories A and B. If I had something new to add, I'd copy the whole block of red to the row below and add the record in black above.
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    Green Listing 2023 - Joint Thread

    My take would be to either put all category-C birds in black or all of them in red so as not to discriminate between countries based on what their records committees think. It only applies to a few species, so there's not much to sort out.
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    Green Listing 2023 - Joint Thread

    The world list is already done (in alphabetical order for each day) :D.
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    Green Listing 2023 - Joint Thread

    I suspect it was meant for escapees and then also included naturalised species. I was wondering what happens to the world list if a Canada Goose is seen in America at some point after January 1: do we keep the earlier feral record, the later native record, or both (with the red list only serving...
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    Green Listing 2023 - Joint Thread

    Just today, I was hoping that someone from outside the Western Palearctic would join and make things more interesting. Glad I'm--for now--not the only one with a less than lopsided list. Question for others: What happens if a non-native species listed in red is later seen in its natural habitat?
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    Green Listing 2023 - Joint Thread

    It turns out that you've got ten first/shared first sightings on the world list. EDIT: @Xenospiza Five of your records from February have January dates on your personal list.
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    Green Listing 2023 - Joint Thread

    Interesting how uncommon Rook and Common Gull are in western Germany. I can see both of them without going outside on some days, Common Gull being the most common gull and Rook being the second most numerous corvid after Jackdaw.
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    Green Listing 2023 - Joint Thread

    I've just noticed that I've recorded 50% of all of my eBird checklists--so not all of my birding but a significant chunk of it--within 2 km of my home and 60% within 5 km. (I don't keep a yard list, by the way.)
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    Green Listing 2023 - Joint Thread

    Good that I still have the crane, although I'll perhaps have to cross out two other species. (I'm quite surprised by the presence of storks in Western Europe at this time of the year, and it's not apparently not limited to Belgium.)
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    Green Listing 2023 - Joint Thread

    Just in case: both there and back?
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    Green Listing 2023 - Joint Thread

    ? https://fr.m.wiktionary.org/wiki/kajzerka
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