Name a Bird You've Photographed (3 Viewers)

[Paul Chapman]

Another puffbird...

2395. Semicollared Puffbird Peru

All the best

Paul

 

[Jeff Hopkins]

2396. Collared Redstart - Panama

 

[Paul Chapman]

Using collared...

2396. Collared Babbler Thailand

All the best

Paul

 

[Paul Chapman]

Collared Redstart is called Collared Whitestart under IOC.

Another warbler...

1962. Collared Whitestart Costa Rica

All the best

Paul

2396. Collared Redstart - Panama

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So another duplicate I am afraid. I have corrected the number above. Collared Redstart for me as well on eBird.

All the best

Paul

 

[Jeff Hopkins]

Collared Redstart is called Collared Whitestart under IOC.

So another duplicate I am afraid.

All the best

Paul

I absolutely despise that nomenclature. 🤬

2397. Arabian Babbler - UAE

 

[Paul Chapman]

I absolutely despise that nomenclature. 🤬

2397. Arabian Babbler - UAE

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I didn't make the rules...

As I tried to say many many hundreds back, as we are playing by IOC, if you say had an IOC spreadsheet with IOC names (and a rule that people at least used the IOC name as part of their post), simples... No hidden duplicates.

I am using it to learn a bit about IOC taxonomy. (Indeed, for those still tackling the shared spreadsheet, that simply needed to be the IOC spreadsheet and a column to add the number when played.)

All the best

Paul

 

[Paul Chapman]

Another babbler that expanded its range and became available...

2398. Iraq Babbler Turkey

All the best

Paul

 

[Jeff Hopkins]

I didn't make the rules...

As I tried to say many hundreds back, as we are playing by IOC, if you say had an IOC spreadsheet with IOC names (and a rule that people at least used the IOC name as part of their post), simples... No hidden duplicates.

I am using it to learn a bit about IOC taxonomy. (Indeed, for those still tackling the shared spreadsheet, that simply needed to be the IOC spreadsheet and a column to add the number when played.)

All the best

Paul

I'm not questioning the rules of the game here. I just hate the fact that American redstarts (small R) are being coopted as whitestarts by a carpetbagging organization. Just the name whitestart makes me cringe. Moving on...

Not the best shot, but it took 4 hours to find the damn things:

2399. Afghan Babbler - Kuwait

 

[Paul Chapman]

Simply explaining how life could have been made easier... Another Argya babbler:-

2400. Fulvous Babbler Morocco

I recognise that fence at Jahra Pools I suspect.

All the best

Paul

 

[Jeff Hopkins]

I recognise that fence at Jahra Pools I suspect.

Nope. It's at a farm in the Abdali / Budai area near the Iraqi border. We never made it to Jahra Pools because we spent so much time looking for the babbler.

2401. Taiwan Scimitar-babbler

 

[Paul Chapman]

Changing to another babbler...

2402. Variable Limestone Babbler Thailand

All the best

Paul

 

[Paul Chapman]

Nope. It's at a farm in the Abdali / Budai area near the Iraqi border. We never made it to Jahra Pools because we spent so much time looking for the babbler.

I have been to Kuwait twice. Late autumn in 2011 & spring in 2017. My Western Palearctic list on the back-burner a bit really but interesting place. 👍

All the best

Paul

 

[Oregonian]

2401. White-browed Shrike-Babbler, Yunnan, China
Pteruthius aeralatus

 

[Oregonian]

My wife, a plant taxonomist, thinks it's silly that we birders (at least the Americans and British) use common names at all. She admires Latin American birders, who are fine with the scientific names. But it's still just a game, after all. Anyway, I like calling the Whitestarts.

 

[Swindon Addick]

My wife, a plant taxonomist, thinks it's silly that we birders (at least the Americans and British) use common names at all. She admires Latin American birders, who are fine with the scientific names. But it's still just a game, after all. Anyway, I like calling the Whitestarts.

Given that plant taxonomy gave us Sorbus admonitor, whose official common name is No Parking Whitebeam, a certain degree of reluctance to use English names is understandable.

 

[Jeff Hopkins]

I have been to Kuwait twice. Late autumn in 2011 & spring in 2017. My Western Palearctic list on the back-burner a bit really but interesting place. 👍

All the best

Paul

I liked Kuwait, too. It was a quick add-on after part of my Ethiopia tour got cancelled. I only had the one day of birding, so I focused on two key targets: The babbler and Hypocolius. I don't keep a WP list per se, so it was about getting some specials for my world list.

2402. Horsfield's Babbler - Bali

 

[Oregonian]

2403. Grey-hooded Babbler (IOC), Gray-hooded Babbler (Clements)
Uncle Tan's Jungle Camp, Kinabatangan River, Malaysian Borneo
Cyanoderma bicolor

 

[BenjiS]

(Indeed, for those still tackling the shared spreadsheet, that simply needed to be the IOC spreadsheet and a column to add the number when played.)

All the best

Paul

If you would like to (and be able to) create that I would happy to change to that as the main spreadsheet

 

[Joe H]

I get to play! #2404, Iraqi Babbler, seen in Iraq in 2005 or 2006.

 

[awiner]

I get to play! #2404, Iraqi Babbler, seen in Iraq in 2005 or 2006.

So sorry - that was played just above as 2398.