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    Snipe and Dove from Mongolia

    I think the demarcation of black and white in the tail is so sharp that Hill is a safe conclusion.
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    Snipe and Dove from Mongolia

    Fine for Hill Pigeon, with which it mixes in Mongolia.
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    Green Listing 2024 - Joint Thread

    The Common Quail was nice enough to call today, but I was a bit more excited by a Sedge Warbler (which is a bit more regular on my local patch, but most sightings are in Mid-April).
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    Green Listing 2024 - Joint Thread

    While I was searching for Grasshopper Warbler (in vain), a River Warbler was reported from the Wooldse Veen, a nice area of moorland just across the Dutch border. A Dutch bird almost couldn't be closer to my home and as it was (just) under 40 km away, cycling was an option. The showers all...
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    Green Listing 2024 - Joint Thread

    After arriving too late to hear a Quail on my local patch, a Northern Wheatear was a bit of a consolation prize.
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    Trochilidae

    The last sentence confuses me: do they mean that boucardi should not be treated as "incertae sedis", but be included in Chrysuronia? Or should it have said that "Amazilia" luciae should still be treated as "incertae sedis"?
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    Your Most Recent "Life" Bird

    Black-and-white Tody-Flycatcher was the last one of some 70 IOC ticks (more according to BirdLife or Brazilian list) on Fernando de Noronha and in Amazonia. The most exclusive tick was probably Chestnut-headed Nunlet, but this will likely receive a steady stream of visitors as long as the water...
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    Petition to AOS Leadership on the Recent Decision to Change all Eponymous Bird Names

    My colleagues from northern Italy are adamant that Africa starts somewhere north of Rome, maybe a bit further south if they are broad-minded. From your wikipedia article: The United Nations and its statistics division recognize North America as including three regions: Northern America, Central...
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    Petition to AOS Leadership on the Recent Decision to Change all Eponymous Bird Names

    Without Zino there'd probably be no need for Americans to discuss its name.
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    Green Listing 2024 - Joint Thread

    It always takes a bit to get going again after a holiday, so I decided against long rides for a Whiskered Tern or Black-winged Stilts. At a slower pace, I added a number of expected species, but also a nice immature Montague's Harrier. Edit 1: Lesser Whitethroat (which I'd expect -almost- on my...
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    AOU-NACC Proposals 2024

    The subspecies to be split as Caribean are those on Cuba, Hispaniola and Puerto Rico. Source: Catanach T et al. 2021.
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    Green Listing 2024 - Joint Thread

    A visit to the local patch after work delivered Greenshank, Red-backed Shrike and Honey Buzzard.
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    Green Listing 2024 - Joint Thread

    Back from holiday, back on my bike: Swift, Marsh & Garden Warbler and Cuckoo on the shortest route to work this morning.
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    Bird confuses police with mimicry

    When I worked in Harlow there was a Blackbird that convincly mimicked the sound of a forklift truck reversing.
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    Green Listing 2024 - Joint Thread

    I had been expecting a Nightingale for the last few days, as they tend to be common along the canal I cycle along on the way to work, but I had to go to the prime spots nearby to find one.
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