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Recent content by Robert Giles

  1. Yellow-crowned Redstart

    Yellow-crowned Redstart

    At Cuchilla de San Lorenzo, Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta, Magdalena, Colombia. [Yellow-crowned Redstart (Myioborus flavivertex)--SACC Classification Version 3 January 2013]
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    • Category: Central & South America & Mexico
  2. Urrao Antpitta/Fenwick's Antpitta

    Urrao Antpitta/Fenwick's Antpitta

    At Reserva ProAves - Colibr del Sol. [Urrao Antpitta (Grallaria urraoensis)--SACC Classification Version 3 January 2013]
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    • Category: Central & South America & Mexico
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    Grallaria sp

    Some ideas for the new ICZN CODE Right that’s clear then, perhaps it is worth ICZN clarifying things for the benefit of future researchers. I would suggest: 1. Whilst a bird species may be described from photographs in Asia, such as the Bugun Liocichla, such descriptions are not valid in the...
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    Republicans target US Wildlife in Debt talks

    This particular attack on the Endangered Species Act has been defeated, see: http://www.abcbirds.org/newsandreports/stories/110801.html Well done ABC and its supporters. And there's a quite a lot of bipartisan support, over one third of Republicans voted for the amendment to save the Act!
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    Hummingbirds at the Hotel Minca feeders

    Also Pale-bellied Hermit now coming to the feeders at the Hotel Minca in the Sierra de Santa Marta, Colombia Here's a photo of a Steely-vented Hummingbird by Miles McMullan
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    Birding in Costa rica ,Panama and Columbia

    Whilst you could easily spend 3 weeks in Colombia, and still want more, it is very possible to combine El Dorado, which has about a third of the Colombian endemics in a single site that is one of the best birding lodges in South America, with Panama. There are direct flights from Panama to...
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    Fenwick's Antpitta

    Eric, thanks for posting that link. You're quite right of course. The only thing I would take issue with you very slightly is that you say that "ProAves is fighting this". We (I say this as the only non-Colombian member of the junta) are not really trying to fight anyone, we just want to put the...
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    Colombia Feb 2011

    Jens we'd be happy to help you as we did Robert Scanlon's trip. Do write to [email protected] or ring us. I'm enjoying this thread Robert, keep it up!
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    Conservation Politics and Extinction

    Terrible about Hawaii, described by American Bird Conservancy as the "epicenter of extinction in the Americas". Amazing the President does not know or care about this if he was born there. On a different aspect: Can the experts tell me why would the following not be regarded as PEW? Bogota...
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    Crisis in Cyprus: Illegal bird trapping reaches disastrous levels

    If it is possible in a poor country like Colombia to work with children successfully to protect wild birds, it is surely possible in countries that Malta and Cyprus that claim to be part of Europe. This article is from 2008 but the work goes on successfully and should warm the heart of any bird...
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    Paraguayan Chaco

    Ok so the article is sensationalist and the Chaco is probably not (yet) one of the most threatened areas of biodiversity in the world. But all credit to World Land Trust and their partner Guyra for the fantastic conservation work they are doing there. Conservation is for the long term and great...
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    Hummingbirds at the Hotel Minca feeders

    White-necked Jacobin Rufous-breasted Hermit Brown Violetear Black-throated Mango White-tailed Starfrontlet Long-billed Starthroat Santa Marta Woodstar Red-billed Emerald Coppery Emerald White-vented Plumeleteer Violet-crowned Woodnymph Rufous-tailed Hummingbird Steely-vented Hummingbird...
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    Volunteering woes-any help?

    As you speak Spanish, love raptors and are interested in international development, you should go to Colombia. A fantastic country with very nice people.
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    Best Bird Books of the Year 2010: the new Colombian Field Guide at No.2 !

    Official NHBS list of the best bird books published in 2010 http://www.nhbs.com/hoopoe/index.php/title-information/nhbs-books-of-the-year-2010/ 1. Collins Bird Guide 2. Field Guide to the Birds of Colombia 3. Advanced Bird ID Guide 4. Field Guide to the Birds of the Middle East 5. Reed and Bush...
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    New Species of Antpitta from Colombia

    I'm just returning from a long birding tour around Colombia and see the interest in this issue of Grallaria fenwickorum. So briefly I will share what I have been told: ProAves has not yet contested the editorial published in Ornitologia Colombia (associated with the second description of the...
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