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    Is it possible to ID this Sandpiper? (France)

    Beak looks too heavy for Marsh Sandpiper. Not Green or Wood Sandpiper (legs too long). Greenshank is suggested but as I've never seen a yellowlegs ...
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    Skomer 42y. guillemot studies - crowdfunding‏

    Tim Birkhead is now just £50 short of the £12,000 that were needed to continue the project for 2015 and the sum was paid in just 14 days from just over 600 donations @ c. £20 per donation. Many thanks to all those on Birdforums who contributed. :-)
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    Skomer 42y. guillemot studies - crowdfunding‏

    There are two articles in the Guardian on the same day (26/10/14): http://www.theguardian.com/environme...t-tim-birkhead and http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2014/oct/26/guillemots-study-skomer-wales-budget-cut-tim-birkhead and Professor Birkhead writes as a guest blogger in Mark Avery...
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    Skomer 42y. guillemot studies - crowdfunding‏

    Hi All, Apologies for any cross-posting. Some of you may have visted the Welsh island of Skomer, famous for its seabirds with many thousands of Manx Shearwaters, Puffins, Razorbills and Guillemots (Common Murres). Since 1972 Dr. Tim Birkhead and his students from the University of Sheffield...
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    ID Song - NE Italy ... unfathomable!!! Phyllosc?

    Hi All, I'M TRANSLATING AND FORWARDING THIS MAIL FROM PIERLUIG TAIARIOL, AN ORNITHOLOGIST LIVING NEAR PORDENONE IN NE ITALY. I'VE ALREADY SENT IT TO EBN WITH NO JOY AND A VERY GOOD N. AM BIRDER SAYS IT ISN'T ANYTHING FROM NORTH OF THE U.S - MEXICAN BORDER. REGARDS, PAUL TOUT, TRIESTE...
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    More museum blasts from the past..

    Satin Bowerbird -> Crinkle-collared Manucode The two Satin Bowerbirds (Ptilonorhynchus violaceus), labelled as such (and from "Queensland" as well) are not. They are manucodes ... the Crinkle-collared Manucode (Manucodia chalybata) from Papua New Guinea and not present in Australia. I went...
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    More museum blasts from the past..

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    More museum blasts from the past..

    I don't 'toot' anymore ... it doesn't agree with me! They're here: http://www.birdforum.net/blog.php?b=976 ToUty
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    More museum blasts from the past..

    me... not at lot of Oz specimens but the ones there are are all clearly labelled so the guide is perfect. The old mounted neo-afro tropicals are the worst (label-wise) whereas almost all the Asian stuff has a locality even if unidentified. You can never be sure though. I found a Zebra Finch...
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    More museum blasts from the past..

    >>Could be worth posting some measurements and hope that Rasmus et.al come along I'm back in the museum tomorrow and will do that.
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    More museum blasts from the past..

    Yeah! Might be. You can never tell what the taxidermists will do with a pose. It's actually labelled as a "Corvinella cissoides", a very old synonym for "Corvinella corvina" - the African Yellow-billed Shrike (which it ain't!). If it does prove to be a Woodcreeper (Dendrocolaptinae) it means...
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    More museum blasts from the past..

    From the Trieste Museum of Natural History ... (shotgun) blasts from the past
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    A couple more to I.D - Trieste Museum of Natural History

    Trieste Museum of Natural History is about to move from its current location in Piazza Hortis (where it's been since its inception in 1860) to new premises, starting on 10th December - so I don't know how many more times I'll be able to update this blog before losing access to the collections...
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    A couple more to I.D - Trieste Museum of Natural History

    Trieste Museum of Natural History is about to move from its current location in Piazza Hortis (where it's been since its inception in 1860) to new premises, starting on 10th December - so I don't know how many more times I'll be able to update this blog before losing access to the collections...
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    Pick 'n' mix from the Trieste NHM

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