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    Mysticete replied to the thread Birding tours in Hawaii in June?.
    You probably are not going to find any regularly organized tours in summer, except maybe more informal ones led by a local birding...
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    Mysticete replied to the thread Turdidae.
    Another Swainson's Thrush paper just came out. Mapping seasonal migration in a songbird hybrid zone -- heritability, genetic...
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    Mysticete replied to the thread Poll - Do you agree or disagree with the AOS's recent decision to abandon the use of eponymous bird names?.
    Indeed. Hell, apparently AOS has already voted on the third set of proposals this year for the annual update, and we haven't even gotten...
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    Mysticete replied to the thread The ebird update - How do you like it?...
    I like the new look...it will take a bit to get adjusted to the new placement of things, but don't see the doom and gloom people are...
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    Mysticete replied to the thread Aegithalidae.
    I wouldn't expect movement on this without nuclear DNA and a examination of the hybrid zones, at minimal.of the World suggests the two...
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    Mysticete reacted to Peter Kovalik's post in the thread Aegithalidae with Like Like.
    Robert M. Zink, Garth M. Spellman, Ricardo Canales-del-Castillo, Kevin Epperly, and John Klicka (2023) Mitochondrial DNA phylogeography...
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    Mysticete replied to the thread Gentrification attracts wildlife.
    I think a bigger problem (speaking of only the states...I won't comment on other countries) is that economic conditions make it...
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    Mysticete replied to the thread Gentrification attracts wildlife.
    I'm suspicious the "kids recognize more pokemon than animals" is actually a new phenomena. I'd bet if you looked at any decade, most...
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    Mysticete replied to the thread AOU-NACC Proposals 2024.
    Am I mistaken, or is this from a batch of proposals that isn't even released yet to the general public?
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    Mysticete replied to the thread Subspecies groups and future splits.
    When there is an existing name in use (even if the name kind of sucks?) I generally go with that name. I'm trying not to reinvent the...
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    Mysticete reacted to njlarsen's post in the thread Subspecies groups and future splits with Like Like.
    The throat color of torridus is described as greyish-purple to greyish-green. There should be a name out there for such a color...
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    Mysticete replied to the thread Turdidae.
    For those curious about the votes of the proposal in question...
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    Mysticete replied to the thread Turdidae.
    IIRC, there was a failed proposal to split Swainson's Thrush a few years ago that the AOS voted on. I wonder if this paper would change...
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    Mysticete replied to the thread Subspecies groups and future splits.
    Glacial progress, but some progress. Next batch: suggestions always recommended Giant Hummingbird Southern Giant Hummingbird -...
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    Mysticete replied to the thread Furnariidae.
    Treat Xenops minutus as three species https://www.museum.lsu.edu/~Remsen/SACCprop996.htm
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