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Recent content by Rasmus Boegh

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    Another 5 from Itatiaia Brazil

    Post #4: 1-3 Andrew got it with Pallid Spinetail, 4 Thrush-like (aka Plain-winged) Woodcreeper, 5 Olive-green Tanager (too much contrast between upperparts and underparts in van Berlo). Post #8: You already got them. Even without the back, it is reasonably easy to exclude White-throated from...
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    5 more from Mostardas, Brazil

    Andrew got 1-3 in last post. 4) Probably Small-billed, but features separating this and the very similar White-crested and Olivaceous are not completely reliable (this is a trio where voice often is the only way you can be 100% certain). 5) Brown-and-yellow Marshbird.
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    5 more from Mostardas, Brazil

    Yes, Post 9 #2 is a Chestnut-capped Blackbird. The last post: 1) Olive Spinetail. 2) Southern Beardless Tyrannulet. 3) You're right. 4) Highland Elaenia. 5) You're right on the martin.
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    Mixed lot from Itatiaia, Brazil

    White lores on your birds. In the Azure-shoudered, they usually look like this: http://www.birdforum.net/opus/Image:Azure-shouldered_Tanager.jpg If doing a standard google search, you can unfortunately find loads of Sayaca Tanagers mislabelled as Azure-shouldered, which does make a bit harder...
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    Mixed lot from Itatiaia, Brazil

    #4 and #5 are potentially confusing, as it is a juvenile Green-headed Tanager. As a very general rule, juvenile Tangara tanagers are far more uniform than adults, and in the dimorphic species they most resemble females. Your coquette is a young male. Both #1 and the photo in post 2 are quite...
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    Plovers, Mostardas, RS, Brazil

    As I noted in a comment before its publication, the Semipalmated occurs regularly along the entire coast of Brazil.
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    Peruvian softail, or what

    Agree with cajanuma. Admittedly, it looks odd (somewhat resembling a female Tachyphonus on one of the photos), and I would have expected more white to the central underparts, but the rufous flanks can sometimes appear pretty extensive, and the photos are rather blurry. Certainly neither a...
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    Small white bird, southern Brazil

    White Monjita (Xolmis irupero). Common in RS and frequently perches on telephone lines.
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    Colombian Birds - ID challenge

    ... and that's what I suspected it was, although I was (and still am) uncertain about the possibility of Orange-crowned, even if the locality makes that less likely. The minor jump in altitude is well within reach for the Thick-billed. It should also be noted that female Thick-billed with a...
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    Paraguay October 2009

    Based on ~2 weeks in right habitat and region with the result being zero, I'd say pretty rare (... but perhaps I was just unlucky). I'll switch one of my Crimson-bellied sightings for a Black-bodied... Nice report.
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    ID please, birds of Colombia.

    Most of those photos show the Sparkling Violetear. The only exception is photo P1015417, which is a Short-tailed Emerald.
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    Colombian Birds - ID challenge

    First is one of the euphonias with olive-yellow underparts (i.e. not Orange-bellied, which looks like this near the Western Andes of Colombia). Exactly where was it photographed? The 2nd is a female Slaty Antwren. Agree with already suggested IDs for the last two.
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    ID please, birds of Colombia.

    Agree with the IDs already suggested for the first four photo. The very last photo (P1015260) is a Green or Sparkling Violetear. Impossible to separate from this photo.
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    Phaetornis maranhaoensis

    You should follow CBRO, which includes it as a valid species, and was the taxonomy followed in all but a few cases (though CBRO, like SACC, is continuously updated, meaning that some changes post-deadline have happened). Saying it "now" is considered a separate species is the only thing that...
  15. Rasmus Boegh

    Birds of Brazil by van Perlo

    Even if only parts are of direct relevance to the guide, this may be of use to some (a brief intro here). New posts are likely to be added at random intervals, though anything that takes longer than ~30 minutes to write is unlikely to end up there (longer posts will generally just be...
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