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    Angola field guide

    Just making sure: IS there a field guide for Angola? The big Sinclair is a bit of an overkill, and the Southern Africa books don't say, but I think they all stop at the Limpopo. -- Daan
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    Rallidae

    So how does one get access to their 2021 taxonomy ?
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    How Many Genera Have You Seen?

    Bet the one Calidris you miss is pygmaea, which was my last one, in 2003, making it my biggest completed (wiped) genus. Since then, C. pygmaea has become a lot more difficult. But you beat me with the Phylloscopus - I have only 43. Daan Sandee
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    How Many Genera Have You Seen?

    Birding slang (possibly British) for "seen all the species in".
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    How Many Genera Have You Seen?

    Clements 2019 has 2257 extant genera of which I have seen 1802 (80%.) But it's an awful long tine since I added to that number. My program also tells me that I have wiped 919 genera, or about half. Daan Sandee
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    Global birding in a nutshell (or is it in an eggshell?) - Bird Families of the World!

    Sapayoa Mottled Berryhunter Ifrita Melampittas Spotted Elachura Dapple-throat and Allies Wrenthrush I've been to PNG twice and still miss Ifrita. Berryhunter and the...
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    Global birding in a nutshell (or is it in an eggshell?) - Bird Families of the World!

    Right, but that must have split after I did Cuba with Audubon in 2012. Got all endemics except the rail. So I had both warblers and later an armchair family. -- Daan
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    Global birding in a nutshell (or is it in an eggshell?) - Bird Families of the World!

    Anybody really interested? I'm at 241 (7 to go), and I don't think I'll ever get higher. I'm too old to climb hills in Assam to look for some stupid wren-babbler. My birding partner, which whom I have spent the last twenty years roaming the world, once was down to zero missing families. The...
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    2019 eBird/Clements taxonomy update - convergence with IOC/HBW mentioned

    Actually the Updates-and-Corrections hasn't arrived yet. But it's promised.
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    2019 eBird/Clements taxonomy update - convergence with IOC/HBW mentioned

    Thank you very much. Now I can get to work. Comparing Clements with IOC, I find 266 splits yielding 329 species, so you know where to look further. All of your 100+ species are in the IOC list, although sometimes under different names (is the Red-tailed Wheatear splitoff the Kurdish Wheatear...
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    2019 eBird/Clements taxonomy update - convergence with IOC/HBW mentioned

    No they're not saying what they are doing. Just that they are changing things around. And they do it according to a list that is Cornell's, and that nobody gets to see.
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    2019 eBird/Clements taxonomy update - convergence with IOC/HBW mentioned

    The work-behind-the-scenes-taking-time is Ebird working on people's checklists. If the Cornell checklist is fixed and finalized, it should be published. On Cornell's website. I remember in some years, Ebird published the list before the official publication date, with the proper warning that...
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    Guiding in Samoa

    Can anyone put me in contact with a bird guide in Samoa ? Most trip reports say it's very easy (finding birds in Samoa), but we have vast experience with not being able to find easy birds all over the world, so we need local help. Thanks -- Daan Sandee
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