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    RFI: Southern Kenya in Jan/Feb 2024

    Thanks Mwangi
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    RFI: Southern Kenya in Jan/Feb 2024

    Thanks James. Cisticola operate in the southeast too, I believe, so that could be a good option. Is that hotel also known as "254 Ole Sereni"?
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    RFI Kenya

    I've just posted a thread over in the Kenya local patches forum, but thought I'd mention it here too. Details here: RFI: Southern Kenya in Jan/Feb 2024 TIA
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    RFI: Southern Kenya in Jan/Feb 2024

    I've just booked two weeks in Kenya in Jan / Feb 2024. The flights and a 7-day small group safari are booked (locations below) so I'm looking for advice on the remaining days. I've got two days to play with at the start. It's my first time in East Africa so there should be more than enough...
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    Hooded Grebe and other Patagonian endemics

    Hi Manolito, thanks for this, I'm interested. I've messaged you via the "Start a Conversation" link (top right). Steve
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    Hooded Grebe and other Patagonian endemics

    Hi Later in my upcoming trip (see the Buenos Aires thread below) I am visiting Patagonia. I'm definitely including El Calafate/Perito Moreno and El Chalten and I am trying to decide if I should also head up to the Strobel plateau to look for Hooded Grebe and a few other species that don't quite...
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    Birding sites within a day's travel of Buenos Aires

    Thanks everyone for all those replies - extremely helpful
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    Argentina trip - request for info

    Hi. I've posted a request for info about sites around Buenos Aires in the Argentina Local Patch forum here: https://www.birdforum.net/threads/birding-sites-within-a-days-travel-of-buenos-aires.416564/ Any help appreciated. Thanks
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    Birding sites within a day's travel of Buenos Aires

    Hi I'm off on a six week trip at the end of the year - three weeks in Argentina, then three weeks at sea visiting the Falklands, South Georgia and the Antarctic pensinsula. I'm spending my first week based in Buenos Aires, and am looking for advice on birding sites within easy reach of the...
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    Britain's Birds 2nd Edition

    Thanks for this John, much appreciated. Based on this, I probably won’t buy this edition, but wait for a future one instead. Just one thing: the reason I chose to analyse the gulls was that I didn’t have time to review the whole book so felt I could conclude something about the overall gap...
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    Britain's Birds 2nd Edition

    Thanks. I was going to hold off from buying it just yet as I wanted to see what you thought of it first 🙂
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    Britain's Birds 2nd Edition

    If anybody receives a copy, an interesting test of how improved this second edition is would be to work through my comments on the gulls section (post #40 here: https://www.birdforum.net/showthread.php?p=3442580) and identify which ones have been addressed. Any volunteers?
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    Japan and Cambodia, Lynx

    Could someone with a copy of the Cambodia book possibly post lists of the 15 (existing and “new”) endemics & near-endemics that it includes (with the species the new ones have been split from)? Thanks
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    A first trip to Peru

    Thanks both. I thought two weeks would be tight. And I’m definitely the sort of birder who likes to spend a few days at a new location to really get a feel for its avifauna. I must admit I hadn’t seriously thought about doing only the higher parts of the Manu Road from Cusco then flying to...
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    A first trip to Peru

    Hi I’m planning a first trip to Peru for next year and looking for thoughts on what to include in my itinerary: a bit of an open question, I know. I’ve only got two weeks to play with, frustratingly, so will have to be brutal about what I include/leave for another visit. Here are some random...
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    Chinese Pond Heron

    Ignore me: I was looking at a previous revision of the page - which Google Image Search returned when I searched for Chinese Pond Heron, rather than returning the current revision.
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    Chinese Pond Heron

    The photo of the breeding-plumaged adult on this page is actually a Javan Pond Heron, isn’t it?
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    Chinese Pond Heron

    Discussion thread for Chinese Pond Heron. If you would like to add a comment, click the Post Reply button.
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    Recommendations for lightweight recording equipment please

    Thanks both, this is helpful
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    Recommendations for lightweight recording equipment please

    Hi I’m looking for something I can use to record bird sounds on foreign birding trips instead of taking my full kit with me, something which meets as many of the following criteria as possible: - small & lightweight (ideally able to be handheld and operated while using bins) - usable in humid...
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    Khao Nor Chu Chi - guide recommendations

    Hi Does anyone have any recommdations for guides for Khao Nor Chu Chi? I understand that the long-standing guide Yothin has passed away. Thanks in advance Steve
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    Handbook of Western Palearctic birds

    Personally, I would recommend buying the books now, rather than waiting for any second edition that may or may not be produced. HWPB is a magnificent piece of work. Any work of this breadth and detail will contain small errors, and none of the errors found so far are significant (and the errata...
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    RFI Washington DC to Toronto in September/October

    Thanks for these further replies: much appreciated.
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    Handbook of Western Palearctic birds

    Thanks, yes, I completely agree: much better to get the book out there and let the hive mind pick up the inevitable small errors than delay it for months while it’s given a final final final proof-read, as even the best proof-readers won’t pick up some of the more subtle issues.
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    Handbook of Western Palearctic birds

    After the crowd-sourced post-publication proof-reading exercise we carried out here on the second edition of the Collins Bird Guide a while back, I told myself that I wouldn't be doing anything similar again. However ... several people have been sending me details of errors they've found in...
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