• Welcome to BirdForum, the internet's largest birding community with thousands of members from all over the world. The forums are dedicated to wild birds, birding, binoculars and equipment and all that goes with it.

    Please register for an account to take part in the discussions in the forum, post your pictures in the gallery and more.
ZEISS DTI thermal imaging cameras. For more discoveries at night, and during the day.

Recent content by mattpau

  1. M

    "Watching Sparrows" DVD: tracking problems?

    Hello I own the "Watching Warblers" DVD made by Michael Male and Judy Fieth. It's a glorious watch, and I'd recommend it to everyone. Note that it's not an ID DVD. It features mostly beautifully shot singing males, with nice commentary. I'd like to get more of this team's DVDs, especially...
  2. M

    Whitish bird - Eastern Ontario Canada

    It's definitely a young Northern Shrike, for the reasons given by Prairiemerlin. Unfortunately, Loggerhead Shrikes now appear to be extirpated from the Ottawa area, although there's always the hope they could still turn up. A shrike in summer would almost certainly be a Loggerhead, as Northerns...
  3. M

    Blue Grouse split in Nat Geographic guide?

    Thanks a lot Jaeger. I probably would have gotten the new edition anyway, but this clinches it.
  4. M

    Blue Grouse split in Nat Geographic guide?

    Hello Can someone tell me whether the just-published 5th edition of the National Geographic guide to birds of North America covers the recent split of Blue Grouse into Dusky and Sooty Grouse? Paul
  5. M

    Request info on Swainson's Warbler site

    My wife, son and I will shortly be travelling from Canada to northern Delaware to visit family. The Dunn/Garrett book on warblers says that the Pocomoke Swamp in Maryland is a site for Swainson's Warbler, which would be a lifer for me. I would be grateful to any birders (local or otherwise) who...
  6. M

    Natl Geo's "Complete Birds of NA"

    Hope people don't mind if I revive this thread. Katy, did you get the book? What do you think? My local bookstore has several copies, so I looked through one of them. Obviously it was for only a few minutes so I can hardly offer an "in-depth" review, but frankly I was disappointed with what I...
  7. M

    Cone-billed tanager rediscovered

    Yes, the discovery of a new species is very exciting, but I find the rediscovery of one thought lost to extinction even more special. Of course the rediscovered species are often critically endangered, and keeping them extant can be no small task. Refinding a creature only to lose it again later...
  8. M

    Cone-billed tanager rediscovered

    Thanks for this summary. I realize that it is not really known where the type specimen was collected, but is this Parque das Emas in the general area where the tanager was assumed to have been found in 1938, or in a completely different, unexpected spot?
  9. M

    Cone-billed tanager rediscovered

    Rasmus, are you at liberty to reveal any more of the "full story"?
  10. M

    Cone-billed tanager rediscovered

    Apparently the cone-billed tanager (Conothraupis mesoleuca) of Brazil has been rediscovered. This bird had been seen exactly once before now: a male was collected in 1938. Since then, nothing--until the rediscovery. This is the tanager that Scott Weidensaul searched for and wrote about in his...
  11. M

    Ivory-billed Woodpecker (formerly updates)

    60 Minutes: I tend to cringe when journalists do a story on a topic I know something about. There are often some pretty bad errors. But the 60 minute piece on the ivorybill was pretty error-free, I thought, and on the whole I felt they did a good job. As has been pointed out, this was for a...
  12. M

    scope dilemma!

    Hi Bill I have a relatively narrow face and deep-set eyes. My nose prevents the huge Zeiss eyepiece from fitting into the area immediately in front of my eye unless I cock my head at an unnatural and uncomfortable angle. With the Bushnell I can keep looking straight ahead and the small eyepiece...
  13. M

    scope dilemma!

    I have the Zeiss Diascope 65 with zoom lens and don't like it. I have gone back to using my older Bushnell Spacemaster that cost about one third the price, if not less. The problem (for me) with the Zeiss is not the optics but the size of the zoom eyepiece. It's so big that I simply cannot look...
  14. M

    Ivory-billed Woodpecker Re discovered ?

    I will be interested to see what the precise nature of the challenge is. Will it be a very specific, practical one, for example a demonstration that the video could easily involve a pileated woodpecker? Or will it be a more general, abstract one, a kind of defense of scientific rigour and...
  15. M

    What is a superspecies?

    Thank you for a very interesting discussion. It confirmed my intuitive idea of what a superspecies was but I would not have been able to express it this precisely! There are a number of other somewhat "scientific" terms that I've come across in bird guides, mostly neotropical ones, that I'm not...
See more
Back
Top