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    Waders and wildfowl which have me puzzled (UK)

    They look like 2 Curlew Sandpipers, Ruff and Female Pochard to me.
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    First Butterflies 2024

    At last. Yesterday glimpsed a Nymphalid which promptly vanished, so not properly identified, but no doubt about today’s male Brimstone!
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    Bird identification required, rawmarsh, Rotherham, South Yorkshire uk

    Scientific name for Siskin is Carduelis spinus….
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    Field Guide to Birds of Greater Southern Africa

    If these are examples of the less satisfactory plates, then that’s settled; this will be the guide I’m taking with me to South Africa in September!
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    Name a Bird You've Seen 2

    I was just replying to the Madagascar discussion, not offering a species; I am sure the Sunbird-Asity has already been played.
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    Name a Bird You've Seen 2

    Missing a lot, but the Yellow-breasted Sunbird-Asity is safely on my list.
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    Monkeys - Roatan Island, Belize and Panama - Feb 2024

    Should therefore be Geoffroy’s Spider Monkey and Mantled Howler Monkey (but check the ranges to be sure).
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    Monkeys - Roatan Island, Belize and Panama - Feb 2024

    Indeed, Spider Monkey and Howler Monkey respectively.
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    Redpoll - common vs lesser - UK

    However there are forms which look different…..
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    Redpoll - common vs lesser - UK

    No comment on identification, but the current trend is towards lumping; as far as I know there are no reliable DNA differences, but not all the relevant authorities have yet followed suit.
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    Drake Ring-necked Duck ?

    Certainly looks like a drake Ring-necked Duck!
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    Raptor and corvid, Uzbekistan

    The Corvid certainly has a crow beak rather than a raven one.
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    First Butterflies 2024

    Still no butterflies for me so far…
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    Your Most Recent "Life" Bird

    Rob, surprised the Seedsnipe was a lifer!
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    Common or Wood Sandpiper? Near Denpasar, Indonesia

    The nearer one looks like a Swiftlet to me, but I think there are at least a couple of possible species.
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    Name a Bird You've Photographed

    Nice, but what is the link to the Antpitta?
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    Golden Eagle ID Needed Scotland

    They look like White-tailed Eagles to me.
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    limerick

    There was a young girl from Japan Whose limericks never would scan. When someone asked “Why?”, She replied, with a sigh, “I suppose it’s because whenever I come to finish the verse I try to cram as many syllables on the last line as I possibly can!” Her friend, a young man from China Had a...
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    Petition to AOS Leadership on the Recent Decision to Change all Eponymous Bird Names

    So might Field Guide authors need to produce a Utah edition to include the bird legally known in Utah as Northern Goshawk?
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    Petition to AOS Leadership on the Recent Decision to Change all Eponymous Bird Names

    Do any of the authorities maintain a list of English names for subspecies?
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    Petition to AOS Leadership on the Recent Decision to Change all Eponymous Bird Names

    What a can of worms! Firstly, may I say how much I regret the time and energy being put in by a legislative body to something so inconsequential as names given to birds. I hope everyone agrees that they would be better advised to use that time on matters of conservation. However, it does lead me...
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    Bird i.d please

    Certainly a Yellow, and looks ok for the Iberian subspecies
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    Do you count heard only birds on your life list?

    As for Pittas; at one point I was listening to 3 Ivory-breasted Pittas simultaneously, but not a glimpse of any. It remains off my life list (and not on my heard only list, as I don’t keep one) despite being a much more vivid memory than many species I have seen! On the other hand...
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    Latest IOC Diary Updates

    My more sensible comment about the Monal-Partridges is that I have only visited their range once; I saw one, but the other was our only significant dip (although thinking about it now, we did hear it!). I was using the eponyms; if I had been using the colour names I suspect I might have a...
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    Latest IOC Diary Updates

    And are the Caroline Islands named after a specific Caroline, or because the natives sing Christmas songs all year? Oops, I mean Yuletide songs as Christmas is patronymic!😉
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