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    Gunung Kerinci (featuring tame Schneiders Pitta & world cup thoughts)

    Cheers for all the gen again. If there are any Florican left you will get the best seats in the house... Talking of Sumatran splits I'm reliably informed that the race of White-crested Laughingthrush is about to be split (certainly in the relevant HBW) as well. Possibly Asian taxonomists are...
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    Gunung Kerinci (featuring tame Schneiders Pitta & world cup thoughts)

    Armed with the knowledge that Pak Subandais homestay at Kersik Tua would be showing the World Cup (no more Bengal Florican for Bird Tour Asia if this gen had been wrong) I took advantage of some ridiculously cheap Air Asia flights ('now everyone can pollute') for a ten day visit to Kerinici...
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    Still more world rarities

    Never visited the ornithomedia.com site before but if you can understand French it's excellent. Includes some photos, video and details of the 1200+ Sociable Plover flock in SW Russia is autumn at http://ornithomedia.com/magazine/mag_art266_1.htm.
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    2006 travel / birding plans, anyone ?

    In a quandry - in June do stay in Asia to do rainforest birding in Sumatra or return to Europe early and go to the World Cup in Germany? Beyond that having two trips to less visited areas of Cambodia looking for three Pittas (Bar-bellied, Blue, Blue-rumped), two partridges (Orange-necked &...
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    Anyone with birding tattoos?

    A friend I worked with in Mauritius had a tatoo of a Round Island Petrel - an Pterdroma - tattoed jsut above her ankle. The tatooist, from a rather dodgy shop in the outer suburbs of Port Louis, had clearly not done anything likes this before and took the picture from Birds of the Indian Ocean...
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    Favourite bird family

    What are peoples favourite family of birds? I’d go for two choices: Cuckoos A fantastic variety from the awesome (e.g. ground-cuckoos) to the relatively common yet still fascinating species with their interesting natural history and cultural relevance. There are ID challenges, three fantastic...
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    Cambodia & Thailand trip: companions needed

    Whilst Kouprey may require the same amount of luck as Orange-necked Partidge or even White-eyed River Martin Banteng are definately a possibility - have been recently seen grazing beside one of Cambodias main roads!
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    Cambodia & Thailand trip: companions needed

    I'm looking for companions to share costs for a birding trip to southern Thailand and then into Cambodia, where I work, in mid Dec to mid Jan 2006. Aims will be too visit the 'famous' sites in southern Thailand for the speciaility species - Gurney's & Mangrove Pitta, Nicobar Pigeon...
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    Spine-tinglers

    Agree with Barn Owls. Not very exotic but every time you see them it makes your day. Slightly more obsucrely Alpine Swift are great to watch as well - so large and mega looking as well as any Treeswifts - in my opinion a combination of swift, bee-eater, falcon all mixed up.
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    list of birding ambitions

    Rediscover White-eyed River Martin Prevent Bengal Florican going extinct Find a first for Suffolk A bit listy I know but get 450 species in the UK and 5,000 in the world (long, long way to go) See Ibisbill and Wallcreeper on the same day
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    Continuing loss of habitat in S America

    Agricultural intensification in the tropics is THE most neglected and under researched issue in conservation. We all know how modern intensive farming has ravaged eco-systems in Europe and North America causing huge declines in farmland biodiversity (increasing evidence from South Africa as...
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    Bird Survey Technique

    Hi Tim, How did you survey Snipe this way and was it during the breeding season? For example how many people were involved/how far apart/was some-one else counting the flushed birds etc. Do you know if there's any information on this technqiue in bird survey books or on the web. The reason I...
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    Bird Survey Technique

    Does anyone know about the use of a chain to flush ground-nesting birds in order to survey secretive species in open grassland habitats? I remember a Canadian researcher once mentioned they did it (dragging a chain behind a 4-wheel drive?) to survey nesting waders on Tundra. Has anyone got any...
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    Current Book Deals

    Has the taxonomic order been changed again??
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    South East Asia

    Bar far the best is the Robson Birds of South-East Asia published by New Holland. Laos appears a relatively un-birded place - it would be great to get some good reports from there as I'm sure its full of good birds. Hoping to be there myself in the spring
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