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  1. Touty

    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...
  2. Touty

    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...
  3. Touty

    More museum blasts from the past..

    From the Trieste Museum of Natural History ... (shotgun) blasts from the past
  4. Touty

    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...
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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...
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  6. Touty

    Pick 'n' mix from the Trieste NHM

    Two blog posts with 5 so far unidentified stuffed birds here and here.
  7. Touty

    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...
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  8. Touty

    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...
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  9. Touty

    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
  10. Touty

    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...
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  11. Touty

    3 more from Trieste Nat. Hist. Museum

    Four more stuffed birds to scratch your head over here
  12. Touty

    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...
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  13. Touty

    Four more from Trieste Natural History Museum

    Four more badly-stuffed birds to puzzle over here: http://www.birdforum.net/blog.php?b=953 Have a good weekend everyone.
  14. Touty

    Four more from the Trieste NHM...

    A busy day wading through a boxful of tropical birds before sundown. Lots more Tanagers including Blue-grey (Thraupis episcopus), 3x Brazilians (Ramphocelus bresilius) and a Red-crowned Ant-tanager (Habia rubica) as well as a series of fairly straightforward cagebird type tropical finches...
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    mystery Italian passerine

    Hi all, A link to a photo has been posted on an Italian bird list: http://digilander.libero.it/emstival/tmp/passeriforme1853.jpg It looks a bit like something from the genus Cettia, perhaps an aberrant Cetti's Warbler, but bear in mind that just about anything could turn up in an Italian...
  16. Touty

    ID museum skins (again) - neotropicals?

    A couple more skins to ID in my museum blog here, as well as a photo of a mounted White-winged Cotinga (Xipholena atropurpurea), a rare endemic from Brazil's Atlantic coast rainforest.
  17. Touty

    Late to work after Silvio goes 'cuckoo'

    Back from London on Monday and back into work on Tuesday to find the whole of Trieste brought to a standstill as a result of the security for the visit of Angela Merkel to the city for her meeting with Silvio Berlusconi. Security wasn't that tight though and a short balding man, apparently some...
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  18. Touty

    More Museum Mystery Skins - Neotropical + ?? Yellow-capped Weaver type

    Hi All, Three more species to grapple with in my blog from the store-rooms deep in the bowels of the Trieste Museum of Natural History, where, amidst the arsenic and formaldehyde are thousands of specimens untouched, unlabelled and unloved for generations: http://www.birdforum.net/blog.php?b=942
  19. Touty

    What's the weaver thingy with a yellow cap?

    I passed a splendid afternoon in the Trieste NHM with the rain pouring down outside sorting through the skins and imagining how much it would cost to keep my house at the temperature you find in Italian public buildings and offices. The stuffed neotropical birds on the desk must have felt quite...
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  20. Touty

    Museum mystery bird skin - Bahia (Brazil)

    Hi All, I have a small part-time job going through a collection of bird skins at the Trieste Natural History Museum in NE Italy. I can cope with most of the material but some of the birds cannot be rapidly assigned given the books available to me (HBW - > vols 1 -12 plus a few others). I've...
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    ID of mystery birds from the Trieste Museum of Natural History

    I have a part-time job going through the collection of the large collection of bird skins at the Trieste Museum of Natural History, more than 10,000, many of which have not been re-examined since they were first prepared, some of them more than 150 years ago. One of the gems that came to light...
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  22. Touty

    Unusual shrike - NE Italy - September '08

    Hi All, I was forwarded these pix with very little information other than that the bird was photographed in September this year at Isola della Cona, a coastal wetland in NE Italy, not far from Trieste. Size, shape and behaviour as for RB Shrike juv. but lacking the russet tones usually...
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    Remember guys....

    .... the enemy is everywhere! (Foto taken by a friend who wishes to remain anonymous, living in Austria)
  24. Touty

    Sociable Lapwing wintering grounds found!!

    This message is less than 15 minutes old!! Gianluca Serra (the Italian who discovered the Syrian (Eastern) Bald Ibis colony a few years ago) just posted this message to the Italian EuroBirdNet at 09:41: "Yesterday a team made up of my former trainees from Palmyra (Syria) and Dutch birding...
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    Which software do photographic agencies use?

    I'm considering setting up a small natural history photographic agency with some friends. I've notice that most of the photographic agency websites, whilst having a variety of looks, are all more or less the same and are evidently based upon the same server-based software (with search facility...
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