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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 ...- Touty
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- Forum: Bird Identification Q&A
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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. :-)- Touty
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- Forum: News From Birding & Nature Organisations
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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...- Touty
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- Forum: News From Birding & Nature Organisations
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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...- Touty
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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...- Touty
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- Forum: Bird Identification Q&A
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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...- Touty
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- Forum: Bird Identification Q&A
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More museum blasts from the past..
- Touty
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- Forum: Bird Identification Q&A
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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- Touty
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- Forum: Bird Identification Q&A
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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...- Touty
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- Forum: Bird Identification Q&A
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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.- Touty
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- Forum: Bird Identification Q&A
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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...- Touty
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- Forum: Bird Identification Q&A
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More museum blasts from the past..
From the Trieste Museum of Natural History ... (shotgun) blasts from the past- Touty
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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... -
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... -
Pick 'n' mix from the Trieste NHM
- Touty
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- Forum: Bird Identification Q&A
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Pick 'n' mix from the Trieste NHM
Two blog posts with 5 so far unidentified stuffed birds here and here.- Touty
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Another rainy Saturday #2
Here a few more oddities: some sort of tanager (no label, 19cm): female Brazilian Tanager (Ramphocelus bresilius) a tropical flycatcher-type labelled 'Singapore' Sultan Tit (Melanochlora sultanea) some sort of oven- or ant-bird from labelled 'Brasile 1883' and about the size of dipper... -
Another rainy Saturday in the Trieste NHM...
Ciao a tutti, belli e brutti! Saturday morning and miserable cold wet weather so I decided to spend a fascinating Saturday morning in the warmth of the museum working on a couple of very interesting trays I'd brought up from the stores late on Friday afternoon. Some great finds amidst the... -
Another rarity from the archives....
Fantastic! I've looked at other photos of Pileated Finch on the web and you are correct. I'll see if I have some other photos but I think that is the best one. PS Yet another Yellow Cardinal on the shelves today but we're reaching the bottom of the barrel as regards mounted birds and quite soon... -
more moth-eaten mystery from Trieste NHM
Three more unlabelled moth-eaten mystery birds from the store-rooms of the Trieste Natural History Museum (plus a Yellow Cardinal Gubernatrix cristata) here- Touty
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Another rarity from the archives....
When you're dealing with a snapshot of the avifauna of the nineteenth century you're sure to get to observe some drastic changes when compared with the present day. As soon as I saw this character gazing glumly from the serried ranks in the storeroom I knew it had to be something special... if... -
3 more from Trieste Nat. Hist. Museum
Thanks very much everyone. I'll update the blog pages with your ID's. I've looked at the lovely clean Chinese Laughing Thrushes on the web. I think I better send this specimen for a shampoo & set!- Touty
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- Forum: Bird Identification Q&A
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3 more from Trieste Nat. Hist. Museum
Four more stuffed birds to scratch your head over here- Touty
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what's hit is history....
... what's missed is mystery. Absolutely horrible, miserable day in Trieste. Cold, driving rain with snow up in the Karst above the city. Yuck. Not a lot of news on the living bird front, though there is a Pink-footed Goose (Anser brachyrhynchus) with the Greylag Geese (A. anser). Sixth record... -
Four more from the Trieste NHM...
Turns out #4 is a a very grotty Black-goggled Tanager (Trichothraupis melanops), down to the pale panel in the wing. (thanks to Rasmus Boegh).