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Recent content by amears

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    Papua and Waigeo Oct 22

    If your shots show even a semblance of a bird, we’d be interested to see!! Anyone else with you perhaps, with a camera...?
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    Papua and Waigeo Oct 22

    Greater Melampitta - wow. Is it known from there? Any record shots?
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    Zigzag Heron east of Puerto Maldonado?

    I’ve noticed lots of eBird records of Zigzag Heron on the river not far east of Puerto Maldonado. Can anyone let me have details of the site or sites involved? Access? Accom? Best season if relevant? Etc. Thanks for any info, Andy
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    Confusion on this tern at Tichfield hants today due to length of streamers and leg length ,think Arctic but would like help

    So adult winter Roseate perhaps
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    Annual trip to Devon and Ham Wall

    Garganey have been on the 2nd viewing platform lagoon lately. Walk the grass footpath north side of the canal for best chance. I think there’s more than one but I keep seeing just singles.
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    New Ivory-billed Woodpecker info

    Roger TP, writing in 1956 about his 1941 sighting of ‘the last two females in the Singer Tract’: ‘It was easy to track them, for as soon as they landed after a flight, they betrayed their location by their curious tooting notes. When they flew, they pitched off on a straight line, like ducks...
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    African Crake, Egypt

    The Surfbirds World Birding gallery is showing a Corncrake from Egypt photographed in 2008 by John Wheldon. It looks more like an out of range African Crake to me. Anyone else offer an opinion? Andy
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    Trinovid BAs still a 'sweet spot' among Leica binoculars?

    Held off posting on here cos it appeared to be a thread for astronomers. But here goes... Am completely guilty of loving my BA 8’32s, but I’ll say straight off, the 42s are just too big and heavy for me. Here are a few reasons why I love them, although they are not my main pair now because I...
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    Favourite Book About Birds/Birding?

    I really need to read Kingbird Highway. I’d also like to read about those first hand IB Woodpecker sightings. Otherwise, I have read a few big year travelogues - but not all of them - and it seems to me it’s really easy to write a very dull one. I’ll drop in another plug for Chris G’s Jewel...
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    First time birding Colombia: Recommendations Wanted!

    No, not yet but would love to of course. I’m an antpitta newbie really. I have spent a stupid amount of time focussing on pitta-pittas and I think the modern feeding of all these birds has taken away something magical from the chase, personally. Here’s another thought: it may also have made...
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    First time birding Colombia: Recommendations Wanted!

    Without wishing to divert from the main thread too much, here’s a Facebook post I made in 2019 (without the mentioned video though): Our last 2 weeks took in some of Colombia’s flagship birding sites. Places like Rio Blanco, Montezuma and Santa Marta will have loomed large on many a birder’s...
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    First time birding Colombia: Recommendations Wanted!

    Pablo did us a favour and set up a trip as ground agent only, not his usual mode of operation. There’s no doubt he knows the birds and sites superbly. He worked hard to make it work but the trip suffered a bit because he wasn't actually with us. I know others who’ve done more standard trips with...
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    First time birding Colombia: Recommendations Wanted!

    We did. One worked out of El Dorado lodge. Also a local guide at Tayrona and one at Flamencos. Otherwise, we just had a driver. Multi colour birding set up the trip for us. Sorry I don’t have guide names or contact details but they were all good.
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    First time birding Colombia: Recommendations Wanted!

    I was lucky to spend a month out there in 2019. Two canny mates joined me for two weeks and this is what they did. With hindsight, we'd have spent a little less time at Tayrona because your chances of connecting with Blue-billed Curassow are slim. Otherwise, it was good: Day locations Rio...
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    8x32 roof with least glare

    Hi. I use the EL 10 32s, they are just lovely to use and look through despite the glare - and despite the strap, which is just awful. I’ll switch to either of the others if birding in forest and needing a wider field (Leica 8 32s, UV or BA). Unfortunately, the BA focussing is getting gritty but...
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