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  1. pbjosh

    Fuegian Snipe: Chile, March 2025

    I assume you’re talking about Cabo de Hornos / Isla Hornos? I only know one person who’s been, but could be that others have gone more recently. Being so far south on the edge of the Drake Passage, seas will be a lot worse and yeah landing much more weather dependent. For La Tapera, you more or...
  2. pbjosh

    Oaxaca Professional Guide

    Oaxaca is amazing and has arguably the best food on earth, and no shortage of options for lodging at just about any budget, at least in most areas. Eric’s a great guy and will be able to sort out anything you should prefer, I imagine.
  3. pbjosh

    Switzerland 2024

    A Relict Gull or Sooty Gull I could get excited about. Laughing Gull…. Hrm… 🤣
  4. pbjosh

    Birding tours in Hawaii in June?

    On Oahu the endemic birds can be found, with patience, on easily accessible trails. If there are over summering BT Curlews you’d see it on eBird as well as the area near a cemetery / along the edge of a golf course they normally are found at. On the Big Island most visitors do guided trips to...
  5. pbjosh

    Any local knowledge out there in SW France?

    eBird hotspots and reports for interesting local species is usually an informative source for info.
  6. pbjosh

    Fuegian Snipe: Chile, March 2025

    Yeah it's a bit of an eye watering price. I had previously inquired and they (Whalesound folks) offered to have me join a standard trip of theirs (at about 500USD/day) but I passed. I've also tried to be in touch with a couple of the people individually involved but they've been seemingly quite...
  7. pbjosh

    Scottish Crossbill - Yes? No? Never?

    Cheers for that, I had forgotten about this effort of yours. Granted it's mtDNA but taken at face value, it makes a lot of sense: An mtDNA soup in N America, an mtDNA soup in Eurasia, and the biggest difference is between the two hemispheres, rather than the same species in Chiapas as in the...
  8. pbjosh

    Scottish Crossbill - Yes? No? Never?

    Also from BotW from the Red/Common Crossbill species account, some salient bits: Regarding prior categorization of N American types into subspecies: "However, with a few exceptions on the periphery of the distribution (e.g., L. c. percna in Newfoundland, L. c. stricklandi in Mexico, and L. c...
  9. pbjosh

    Scottish Crossbill - Yes? No? Never?

    Here's the synopsis from BotW under systematics history o L scotica: "Forms a species group with L. curvirostra and L. pytyopsittacus, and all have sometimes been considered conspecific. Present species almost identical to L. curvirostra in wing, tail, bill and tarsus measurements, and overlaps...
  10. pbjosh

    Birds with very tight habitat requirements.

    Beyond Olive-spotted Hummingbird there is a whole suite of river island specialists in the Amazon, and they have varying habitat preferences between them as far as age / type of successional vegetation. Off the top of my head probably 15+ species are river island specialists?
  11. pbjosh

    Costa Rican Taxonomy

    A Screech-Owl in the Nicoya would presumably be Pacific (M cooperi) and I think it would at least classically be viewed as nominate M c cooperi. At least in the past the mooted possible split was “Oaxaca’s” Pacific Screech-Owl, M c lambi. It’s been a decade now since I’ve spent a lot of time in...
  12. pbjosh

    Albania in April 2024

    Looks lovely. Albania is high on our list for a quick escape or even a bike tour 😍
  13. pbjosh

    SFL vs. Aurora...

    And to loop back to the original Aurora comparison... if it's somewhere between the MHG and the SFL, at the price of the MHG, it sounds like a real winner.
  14. pbjosh

    SFL vs. Aurora...

    Nice comparison / topic. I've still not seen or used an Aurora, but I increasingly find myself moving towards lighter and lighter binoculars for most of my birding. The little 8x30 SFL is a marvel, I adore it. It's everything I loved about the MHG 8x30 for years but just a little better on all...
  15. pbjosh

    The ebird update - How do you like it?..

    I dislike the fact that hotspots pages now are focused on monthly birding and not most recent sightings or all time statistics. Essentially what was useful before is now one click further away. I personally don't care about monthly stats or community targets. Seems a kind of cheap way to try...
  16. pbjosh

    Switzerland 2024

    Apparently both species were present Saturday but the SC not refound after. And yeah, the weather is a rude home coming 🤣
  17. pbjosh

    Switzerland 2024

    Collared Fly is a nice one! I would probably make an effort for that as it’s an easy bike ride but I doubt it’ll be there until I’m home in a few days. Meanwhile preparing to come home to winter again…
  18. pbjosh

    Chile - El Yeso Valley or Farallones ?

    Have a look at the eBird hotspots for both and particularly the bar charts. It should answer all your questions about species and relative abundance :)
  19. pbjosh

    AOU-NACC Proposals 2024

    First just want to say that I think it’s really great that names are being circulated and feedback sought! For the wren, given that one form is already extinct and another presumed, a pragmatic answer would just be Dominica Wren, no? If it is rediscovered on Martinique it will be just be...
  20. pbjosh

    AOU-NACC Proposals 2024

    I think this is a case where maintaining a link to the original or a novel name that provides some context is desirable in order to aid people in associating the name with the correct bird as wren names are kind of a soup of descriptors already. Spot-backed is apt but perhaps doesn’t help link...
  21. pbjosh

    Amazon / Yasuni birding

    Sandro was ok as a guide. Not amazing but knew the birds and critically the territories for key birds. But that was 10 years ago now. I believe Rufous Potoo is no longer staked out at Gareno, unless it has changed again.
  22. pbjosh

    Amazon / Yasuni birding

    Also worth adding - for several of these options you would need to speak Spanish. At Rio Bigal and for Shiripuno english should be fine. For a lot of the smaller places you'll be better off either with some Spanish or being good with google translate and the like :)
  23. pbjosh

    Amazon / Yasuni birding

    Rio Bigal is amazing, some of the best birding in S America IMHO. It's a hike in and probably worth having gum boots, but once there it's tremendous. I believe they will prefer you to be in a group or overlap with another group for logistical reasons - not sure if they'd be keen on a solo...
  24. pbjosh

    The 10% Club - Milestones

    You can perhaps become the person to cross the 50% threshhold the maximum number of times. Like sports / racing type statistics, find the right metric and you can be the best in the world.
  25. pbjosh

    The 10% Club - Milestones

    English is either entertaining or maddening I guess, depending on your mood / point of view :) The older I get, the less I care about spelling and grammar on a lot of these kind of cases and I see english sort of simplifying over the next couple of generations. It is one thing to try to sound...
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