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    Pretty sure this is an antbird, but not sure what species. Orellana, Ecuador. March

    My first reaction was Spot-winged Antshrike based on the amount of spotting on the wing that seems to extend to the lesser coverts, but the tail is too long, and the undertail would be all dark on a Spot-winged Antshrike, whereas your bird has broad white tips to the underside of the tail...
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    Yet another thread on eponyms... But this one might actually be fun!

    It's true that the initial split was into two, but it was the discovery that Moltoni's (and not Subalpine) was the taxon breeding in much of continental northern Italy that prompted the studies that led to the split.
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    Yet another thread on eponyms... But this one might actually be fun!

    Liguria is on the margins of the range of Moltoni's, and Western Subalpine breeds there as well (possibly the occasional Eastern as well) so of the two Tyrrhenian works best (if you can spell it, that is)
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    Latest IOC Diary Updates

    I agree that quite a few of the proposed lumps make little sense, but I wonder if this is a draft and some of the lumps are meant to realign the checklist with an older version of SACC? The Dubusia carrikeri split is now a done deal with SACC and the Dacnis egregia split also seems to be going...
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    Yet another thread on eponyms... But this one might actually be fun!

    I'm guessing you mean sparrow and not junco? Either way, Canadians might beg to differ ;) My main point is that individual preferences are just that. One person's great name is another's abomination. Don't get me wrong, I find this thread quite fun, but for the practical purpose of...
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    Yet another thread on eponyms... But this one might actually be fun!

    Eponyms aside, that actually sums up my position quite well on English names. We all know what bird we're referring to when we say Cetti's Warbler. A few posts prior to this, I pointed out that the Italian name of Cetti's Warbler translates literally as River Nightingale. A completely...
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    Yet another thread on eponyms... But this one might actually be fun!

    It's Usignolo di fiume (River Nightingale) in Italian. The fact that it's neither a nightingale nor particularly tied to rivers doesn't seem to bother anyone though.
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    Yet another thread on eponyms... But this one might actually be fun!

    Kangaroo Warbler. This is what a friend who has found a couple of Radde's here it Italy likened it to.
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    Zeiss FL issue...and are they still repairable?

    Is it under warranty? Mine is from 2009 and has pretty big (and recurring) issues with eyecups and the neckstrap attachment which required me sending them in for repairs twice already, but last time I wrote to Zeiss in Italy they said the warranty is only good for 10 years. For this reason I...
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    Hirundinidae

    Looking forward to reading this in detail, on my first serious birding trip to Colombia in 2012 I remember being puzzled by some of the swallows I saw at Boca de Camarones in the Guajira peninsula and trying hard to string them into Mangrove until I saw that they did have some (quite limited)...
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    Yet another thread on eponyms... But this one might actually be fun!

    It's Falco della Regina in Italian, the Queen's Falcon
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    Yet another thread on eponyms... But this one might actually be fun!

    A proposal has been submitted to SACC and is generating a lot of discussion, much of it from outside experts on seabirds: Revise the taxonomy of Oceanites species
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    Yet another thread on eponyms... But this one might actually be fun!

    The local name on the island of Linosa, Italy, where one of the largest colonies is located, is Turriaca. I believe the name in Maltese, where another major colony is located, is also Turriaca or something very similar. There is another major colony on an island in Tunisia, but I don't know if...
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    Yet another thread on eponyms... But this one might actually be fun!

    Wavehopper is kind of nice, though perhaps more fitting for White-faced Storm Petrel. I think it is mostly Wilson's Storm Petrel that was once called Mother Carey's Chicken by sailors. Apparently Mother Carey is a supernatural being, so would this be an eponym or not?
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    Yet another thread on eponyms... But this one might actually be fun!

    Can we at least agree that what consitutues a "good" or "bad" name is almost entirely down to subjective, individual preference? And that individual preferences vary widely? I personally find Steller's Eider to be a much more evocative and memorable name for a bird of the remote Bering Sea than...
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    Latest IOC Diary Updates

    All hail the mighty hyphen! Bougainville-island Thrush and Bougainville Island-Thrush is an even more elegant solution. Now if only there was a way to pronounce them differently...
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    Princeton Guide to North American Birds

    This guide is also being illustrated by the equally brilliant Italian bird artist Lorenzo Starnini. I've seen several of his plates and they are up to Ian Lewington's exceptionally high standard. I have no info on a release date however.
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    Small Canopy-Dwelling Bird in Sumaco, Napo, Ecuador on March 16, 2024

    I agree with Russet Antshrike
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    Best bird guides by region...Central and South America

    It's 189 thousand! But Colombian pesos so yes it works out to about 45 USD or 40 Euros. I think those books are hard to get a hold of outside of Colombia though. For the Spanish-language books it's no big deal as most of the buyers will be Colombian but for an English edition it would be great...
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    Most contested vagrant-escape cases?

    There's a record of Booted Eagle from Bermuda from the early 1990s I think, maybe involving two birds, that was written off as an escape. I've always found that record very intriguing.
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    Procellariiformes

    If the English name comes from the Latin name carneipes, as I assume it does, then it definitely should be 'flesh' as in 'meat', i.e. what's underneath the skin. Though with there already being a Pink-footed Shearwater, I don't mind the proposed name change. I did always assume that Sable...
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    Tityra leucura - Valid or not?

    Though I'm generally very appreciative of SACC's work, I agree with you on this one. It's probably high time for a new proposal to be submitted, I doubt it would fail this time. It remains a very mysterious bird though, even now that many more birders are visiting its range there are still just...
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    ID Handbook of European Birds - thoughts, comments thread

    Then I guess this would mean that the faulty copies are those with the badly trimmed pages? It would be good to know if those with "perfect copies" also have this issue. Again it's not a huge deal but I do find it distracting on some pages, it seems like it's mostly light greys taking on a...
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    How many hummingbird species have you seen?

    The two Eriocnemis and C. olivaersi? I just checked and am at 215
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    ID Handbook of European Birds - thoughts, comments thread

    It's like mine then, with that strong blue cast on the shadows of the tattler's breast. This might be the most egregious example but there's lots more, mostly light grays or shadows turning blue. It's nothing major, but this is such a fantastic book that it's really a shame the printing is not...
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