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  1. antshrike69

    How many species of owl have you seen

    Now 194 :D
  2. antshrike69

    How many species of owl have you seen

    178 is pretty incredible. I'm hoping to add Cyprus Scops next week :D
  3. antshrike69

    How many species of owl have you seen

    193 species, plus four more heard only. Most recent additions - Sangihe Scops Owl, Sula Scops Owl and Banggai Scops Owl. So many small owls in Asia!
  4. antshrike69

    Two people break 10,000 species, and on the same day? Can it be?

    Any birder who is on or close to 10k, will have seen many of those birds many 100s or even 1000s of times. We should all hopefully remember most/all of them. I'm not saying that is always the case :D
  5. antshrike69

    Two people break 10,000 species, and on the same day? Can it be?

    This may be right in some (many?) cases, but please don't tar all world birders with the same brush. I know many world birders who are good to exceptional at finding birds, both by themselves and when with others. Many who know huge amounts about identification, variation and taxonomy. And many...
  6. antshrike69

    Two people break 10,000 species, and on the same day? Can it be?

    Everyone has their own rules. Some count heard only, some don't. Some keep separate lists of the two. And as for your second question, pretty much every species' calls are known. Heard only records should be subject to the same confirmation as seen records (in some cases, species can only be...
  7. antshrike69

    Two people break 10,000 species, and on the same day? Can it be?

    Thanks for the clarification Jason. I totally get that maintaining a list of >9000 is a constant battle - especially if you also look for non-avian taxa too (as I do as well - currently working through 100s of Peruvian moths). Listing is built on trust, if you are sharing numbers, and like I...
  8. antshrike69

    Two people break 10,000 species, and on the same day? Can it be?

    Maybe, indeed. And I said earlier that I don't know the guy to make assumptions. But there is a lot bizarre here. I've seen well over 9000 species, but I would kill for a load of those he has on his list. As I'm sure almost every other world birder I know would. I have however seen a lot of...
  9. antshrike69

    Two people break 10,000 species, and on the same day? Can it be?

    The thing about hummingbirds like this, is that they are regular at feeders at many lodges over a wide range. Hard to imagine any neotropical birder missing Collared Inca. It's hardly a Rufous-webbed Brilliant (not that I'm bitter over that one....) :D
  10. antshrike69

    Two people break 10,000 species, and on the same day? Can it be?

    Quite a few of these are seeable - I've seen 8/9 of them at least - but this whole list is the stuff of dreams. Even to see both wattled cuckooshrikes is remarkable. But the Nightjar is the one that stands out to me the most I guess. And the tepui endemics as mentioned before. There has been a...
  11. antshrike69

    Owls

    Well overdue - they sound completely different :)
  12. antshrike69

    Birds of Central America

    My copy is very misty too - I've just compared the plates to the samples on the amazon website and mine are very faded and indistinct. I am going to look in to returning it. I feel like I need reading glasses!
  13. antshrike69

    Pearl-bordered Fritillaries Sussex

    I'm heading down to Sussex next week and was planning to look for PBFs at Abbot's Wood, and possibly Rewell Wood too. Can anybody give me any advice on the best areas to search? Especially at Abbot's Wood? Private msg is fine if deemed sensitive information. Thanks :) Jonathan
  14. antshrike69

    Undescribed

    Off there next year :) So many interesting taxa in that part of the Amazon.
  15. antshrike69

    Rhinocryptidae

    Agreed. An undescribed species with (therefore only) an English name, well established and recognisable to the many people who have seen this bird in the field or google it. Much as I quite like the new name, given all the changes in Tapaculo taxonomy in recent years, it would surely be better...
  16. antshrike69

    Rhinocryptidae

    That's my understanding.
  17. antshrike69

    A new species of Zoothera from the Himalaya

    I'm fresh back from Sichuan, where we had a singing Sichuan Forest Thrush in typical scrubby forest habitat, giving typical song. The same day, I saw a "Plain-backed" Thrush foraging on open scree boulder slopes much higher up, just below the Balang Shan pass at ?3500m. This bird was presumably...
  18. antshrike69

    IOC World Bird List v6.2

    It's going to be much trickier cleaning up on catbirds now. Other than the new world ones....
  19. antshrike69

    Mountain Elaenia

    ... And I was there too. :-) Hey snapdragyn!
  20. antshrike69

    IOC World Bird List v5.4

    A good result for me! 4 Collared Kf splits, 4 'Variable' Kingfishers, Taiwan Bamboo-Partidge, Subantarctic Shear, NZ Robin and a Paradise Fly. Nice haul! :D
  21. antshrike69

    Spectacled Flowerpecker

    ... and the fact that it may well not be a canopy specialist after all!
  22. antshrike69

    Seeking new author for Neotropical Birding's "Splits, Lumps and Shuffles"

    Great choice of typo - masterful :D
  23. antshrike69

    Forpus parrotlets

    This leaves a big question over whether F. crassirostris should be treated as a valid ssp (previous status quo), discarded as a synonym for the nominate ssp (Bocalini and Silveira) or split as a full species (IOC).
  24. antshrike69

    Forpus parrotlets

    Thanks Richard - that was my impression. I never turn down a new parrot. Or two :D
  25. antshrike69

    Forpus parrotlets

    Richard - am I right in thinking that the Blue-winged Parrotlet split effectively separates Amazonian taxa (crassirostris, flavescens and ?olallae which looks like it is not recognised) from Atlantic taxa (xanthopterygius, flavissimus)?
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