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    Is there such a thing as tagging along a birding tour group for a few days?

    The thing is, there are enough internet scams on this earth that I am a bit wary. Have you had any positive experiences with people whose contact you couldn't find any other way than through the Birding Pal site? (By which I mean, ideally one would Google the person and look up their social...
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    New Spurn bus service (71E)

    Great news. Reminds me of the bus to Holy Island, which I've used. Am no longer in the UK but if I were there I'd wish for a bus service to a few other places too. Doesn't have to be super-frequent, so as to regulate tourist numbers. But enough to plan a weekend trip with it.
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    Is there such a thing as tagging along a birding tour group for a few days?

    In the context of trying to arrange a holiday for myself, I have been wondering about this. I don't have a big party of friends to go with. Neither do I have deep pockets, nor even a driver's licence. What would then be ideal, in my view, is this: For those destinations which are too hard to...
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    Toronto spring: if limited to public transport, how much can I expect bird-wise?

    Alas I got some disappointing news: I might have to move the trip to the second half of June. Not sure yet, but in case it is so: Could you recommend some birding/wildlife experiences, while I am based in Toronto for 2 weeks, that are either convenient or won't break the bank? (I mean that I'm...
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    The ebird update - How do you like it?..

    I don't know if this has ever been addressed, but I would like to be able to do a search of all publicly available checklists from any given time period. Right now (as before), either you look at the page with only the most recent checklists, or somehow you click on a checklist if it is linked...
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    Toronto spring: if limited to public transport, how much can I expect bird-wise?

    I have plans to visit some folks in Toronto in the second half of May. I don't know how to drive, so if I want to go to the famous migration spots like Point Pelee I would have to make very special arrangements. (Plus I'm a bit hesitant about paying USD200 per night for a hotel there but that's...
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    What Bird can you hear just now?

    (Hong Kong) Right where I live, I often hear Large Hawk Cuckoo and Plaintive Cuckoo in the spring. On occasion one can also hear an Indian Cuckoo. Sometimes they sing well into the night. I mention these because they are more interesting. Other urban birds here also vocalise plenty. Asian Koel...
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    What is your favorite backyard bird?

    I remember Bill Oddie's America episode where he visited a private garden (Cape May I think) that had an incredibly high species list. Such a person would be spoilt for choice well beyond the choices in the poll.
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    Bulbul ID Kota Kinabalu

    Last month, Kota Kinabalu Wetland Centre Can the species of this bulbul be positively identified? It seems Red-eyed and Olive-winged are very similar, I don't know if there are any more. Cheers!
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    restaurants where you can bird and eat at the same time

    Any nice experiences? Feel free to share. In Hong Kong where I live, the only example I can think of is the canteen at Wetland Park. It overlooks a large pond. The best bird that can be hoped for over there is probably Pheasant-tailed Jacana. Normally, you will have a few egrets, a Chinese Pond...
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    Your silliest/most entertaining/unlikely birding accomplishments

    Not a crazy story, but when my friend gave me a lift back from the Eastern Black-eared Wheatear twitch he was astounded to hear that I had never seen a Northern Wheatear. It was my second year in the country.
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    Little vs Pygmy Cormorant: what is the difference?

    Possible question, in case one ventures into the range of the other. I can't find a definitive answer. Birds of the World has a discussion of this, but heavily qualified with words of non-certainty: "Recalls other small, long-tailed cormorants, being very like M. pygmaeus in size, structure...
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    Interesting aspects of birding culture in non-Anglosphere countries?

    Question in the title - any examples would be of interest, because I hardly interact with birders outside the Anglosphere By the way Singapore, India etc count as part of the English-speaking world (P.S. I've been looking for bird-travelogues or bird-memoirs in French, in order to refresh my...
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    Game for birding group trips.

    If anybody is tech-savvy and has time, it should be possible to create a website for this game. I imagine the way to automate this is to get the program to go through eBird images with the desired parameters (location etc) of at least three stars, recognise what the outlines of the bird are...
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    Pacific vs Asian Koel male: how to tell apart?

    Thanks for linking! It seems that in the end you raised the same question and never got an actual answer to this, LOL
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    Pacific vs Asian Koel male: how to tell apart?

    oh sorry could a mod pls transfer this to the ID forum, thanks
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    Pacific vs Asian Koel male: how to tell apart?

    Birds of the World says that it's just possible that an Asian Koel might wander into the range of Pacific Koel. Which leads me to ask, how to tell the males apart, if they are silent? Looking at photos, I can't tell. The females are by contrast very different. (Quite funny in that regard. How...
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    Aesthetic, art-centred birding

    Talk about how birding intersects with art/aesthetics/music/literature/painting etc etc in your life.
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    How many shorebirds/waders have you seen?

    Unless reminded of it, I don't naturally think of buttonquails or pratincoles when trying to count how many waders I have seen. Here is a picture of a Barred Buttonquail in Hong Kong from last month, one of the very few twitchable individuals.
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    skip spectacle for more ticks? (bird trip)

    By the way, you probably know that the most famous location for this is Hokkaido, Japan. Just to let you know, though, I recently spoke to a birder who is originally from South Korea. Apparently they winter every year very near Seoul (the capital of South Korea) at a point along the Han River -...
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    Using a bloodhound to find rarities

    Could they be trained to indicate the presence of a rare bird in a discreet way, like raising their right paw? Haha
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    skip spectacle for more ticks? (bird trip)

    Ah, I hadn't thought of landscapes and such. I would have to be in a poetic or artistic mood if I wanted to enjoy them. I was thinking of wildlife spectacles. Since you mention mammals, would you let go of a few bird ticks to make time for any mammal spectacles (e.g. the great wildebeest...
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    skip spectacle for more ticks? (bird trip)

    On a birding holiday, would you or did you forego a beautiful sight or scene (the sort that makes a good wildlife documentary) because the task of ticking more species is more interesting? ----------- For example, I am actually a bit wary of getting close to a Komodo Dragon, but also because...
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    How Do You Pronounce ____________?

    I found out at some point that the 'j' in 'jaeger' is pronounced like a 'y'. I'm pretty sure that I read somewhere on this forum about some twitcher who, encountering a Scotsman, inquired where the Baird's was. The reply was "there's berds everywhere!"
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    Does kitesurfing have an impact on birds?

    Has happened in Port Meadow, Oxford, which is flooded over in the winter (and, if lucky, in autumn and spring) and thus brings in a large number of roosting gulls, as well as waders. Apparently the kitesurfers got yelled at by a birder fed up with them flushing all the birds away, and the...
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