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  1. Frenchy

    Most outdated bird name

    See that smiley thing at the end of my post...
  2. Frenchy

    Most outdated bird name

    I'm glad we all agree on Egyptian Plover now being called River-courser. Its a great name in the same vein as Quail-plover is a great name, and not an immediately stupid name as in paying homage to a legendary trait that has never been proven to occur.... See, Birdforum can bring us all...
  3. Frenchy

    Most outdated bird name

    Egyptian Plover? It no longer occurs in Egypt (despite many optimistic modern records on eBird!!) and its never been a plover. Personally i'd favour giving it an entirely new name to reflect its in its own family. I quite like "African River-courser", or simply "River-courser". I know its...
  4. Frenchy

    Inaccessible bird species

    Perhaps that is what initiated this. But my company have gone way beyond that by including cover in potentially dangerous areas, something that was always very difficult to get. I presume other companies now do the same? I can't see it being a massive selling point as the number of people...
  5. Frenchy

    Inaccessible bird species

    As a general comment on insurance, I was surprised but pleased to see that when my annual travel insurance renewed recently, they had added cover for countries/areas that were subject to a UK government travel warning as standard. Perhaps an indication that they know many of these are overly...
  6. Frenchy

    5-way chaffinch split accepted by IOC

    There are already two endemic breeding species on Azores (the bullfinch and Monteiro's Storm Petrel), so throw in a Chaffinch and the high liklihood of American vagrants and rare seabirds at right times of year, mean you can get a lot of bang for your WP listing buck, especially if you based in...
  7. Frenchy

    Latest IOC Diary Updates

    Indeed, Which is why guidelines are much better than rules :-)
  8. Frenchy

    Latest IOC Diary Updates

    This is exactly my point using Greenish Warbler. Why is it not Green Greenish Warbler then? Or Gansu Lemon-rumped Warbler?
  9. Frenchy

    Latest IOC Diary Updates

    Why not simply call Fringilla coelebs "Chaffinch", and come up with distinct names for the others. Maghreb Finch, Azorean Finch, Madeiran Finch and Canary Islands Finch would be the obvious answers, but i'm sure there are other options. There are plenty of examples of this. Weren't the...
  10. Frenchy

    ocularis White Wagtail

    Thanks Laurent. Would you say that we should therefore call it Swinhoe's? Or does it not matter?
  11. Frenchy

    ocularis White Wagtail

    Hi MJB. I can understand if you personally like the name, but i think your reasoning isn't terribly logical. Surely the term "Northern Siberian" would be just as good, simply because it breeds in the north of Siberia. To (correctly) say that it does not breed across the whole of Northern...
  12. Frenchy

    ocularis White Wagtail

    Does anyone know where the name "East Siberian" Wagtail came from for Motacilla alba ocularis? The earliest we can find is from Dutch Birding around 1998, such as https://crbpo.mnhn.fr/IMG/pdf/Sangster_et_al_1999_CSNA_1977-98_ARDEA.pdf , so does it originate there? No mention of it in Alstrom &...
  13. Frenchy

    seabirdwatching potential new ferry route between Eemshaven NL and Kristiansand NO

    Agree with Mark. You are better off watching from the coast. Boats are great when you are either in areas of large seabird density or attracting them through chumming. A ferry through the eastern sector of North Sea would be very, very dull. In fact I bet there is more potential for exciting...
  14. Frenchy

    Seabirds Harrison

    Given Harrison's career in tour leading rich Americans who may well be tipping him $850 as small change, I suspect he has priced his prints accordingly, and he'll probably sell them. He seems like a charismatic guy, and there are lots of people who will love his personality style and be happy to...
  15. Frenchy

    Latest IOC Diary Updates

    As far as I'm concerned, its just the name I grew up with. Even at my tender years(!), I lose track of what many species are called nowadays. So, to me, its a Rufous. Or an Oriental when I feel like it. No other agenda! I also have a vague recollection that if meena did get split from orientalis...
  16. Frenchy

    Water rail sp in Mongolia

    Well, i'll be there again in June with one of my targets being to sound record/photo the Savi's Warblers at the same site - possibly the most easterly (presumed) breeding Savi's in the World. That and seeing all the megas, obviously!
  17. Frenchy

    Water rail sp in Mongolia

    The Birdlife map shows Western as basically stopping at the Mongolian border, although they almost certainly do breed in western Mongolia, as does Little Crake. Birdlife map Brown-cheeked as entering central Mongolia from the north and extending down to the Khangai mountains. My record was just...
  18. Frenchy

    Water rail sp in Mongolia

    For info, i recorded Western Water Rail in mid-Mongolia in May this year, as well as seeing it in the same place two years ago but without documentation. See the eBird checklist at https://ebird.org/checklist/S58136449 I was kinda hoping for Brown-cheeked!
  19. Frenchy

    Getting Rare Bird News in Isolated Locations

    Whatsapp does require a mobile internet or wifi signal. If you don't have those, then you'll be stuffed. On the plus side, you may be the first person to tell me a genuine benefit of an iphone!! As soon as i went onto smartphones several years ago, i stopped being able to see the time an SMS...
  20. Frenchy

    Inaccessible Island Rail

    So is gravity. What's your point? https://www.amnh.org/exhibitions/darwin/evolution-today/what-is-a-theory
  21. Frenchy

    Getting Rare Bird News in Isolated Locations

    Not sure about all phones, but with mine there is no time of sending attached to an SMS. There is a time of sending attached to a Whatsapp though, which makes it much more useful. And Whatsapp only requires tiny amounts of signal, which is almost always available. I certainly get that easier...
  22. Frenchy

    Turdidae

    Thanks :-)
  23. Frenchy

    Turdidae

    I read that as meaning Dusky and Naumann's should be lumped. Is that correct?
  24. Frenchy

    New Adelie colony found

    Yes, i thought of that this morning with a clearer head! But then i thought, what about if this colony has recently received an influx of birds from the other (declining) colonies. I guess they know the movements of these birds and assume that they are very colony faithful.
  25. Frenchy

    New Adelie colony found

    Amazing discovery, but there is a very strange paragraph in the article: "The result is of major significance because it would appear the archipelago has somehow avoided the recent Adélie declines documented elsewhere on the peninsula, particularly on its western side." How are they assessing...
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