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    Raptor Tunisia

    Of course Valery... Iit is a typo and in my bad enbglish, as I am quickly writing from the Museum pf Zoology in Roma with limited time ( I am only a guest here at the moment, without my computer)... Read as this "ALSO, and rather more importantly, the tail looks pretty longer in Wahlberg's as...
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    Raptor Tunisia

    I also got the link for an opinion. Well, many species have been mentioned, as Golden (never even close) or Booted, that is in fact the very hard one to tell apart (but normally Botted is hardly so uniformly deep and pure black, even the darkest plumages usually show some variegated brownish...
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    Buzzard ID, Algeria

    Hello Some consideration: 1) there is absolutely no way to ID in the field and even less so some in such photos hybrids (that I don't know why should be called Gibraltar Buzzard when was first reported in Pantelleria and when they are common also in Portugal for ex. so thus us a misleading...
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    Spotted Flycatcher (Muscicapa striata)

    Tyrrhenian Flycatcher is a perfect name, as the taxon nominotipico (the type taxon or type subspecies Muscicapa tyrrhenica tyrrhenica if you like) is tyrrhenica and it is from tyrrhenian sea area. Then balearica, is only a subspecies of tyrrhenica, therefore either no specific English name as...
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    Original type description of Falco biarmicus tanypterus

    Hello Could you help me in tracking the Original description of Falco biarmicus tanypterus Schlegel, 1843? A PDF ? And is here anybody that know email contact to get photos of the type specimens of erlangeri and tanypterus ? thanks so much Andrea Corso
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    ‘Gibraltar buzzard’

    Simply a warning note: sure some birds are hybrid, as myself has proven even before the quoted articles (see my paper in Dutch Birding) ...Indeed, I have followed the adult birds breeding, one a typical buteo and one a typical cirtensis, all the way till the juvenile fledged...
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    Noctivid First Impressions

    I've been using now since 1 month a new pair of LEICA NOCTIVID 10 x 42 ---- And since I am the Italian testimonial for Leica my reviews here and somewhere else may sounds too much in favour...however my proud has always been to be honest and direct...so, when I do not like something...simply I...
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    Acrocephalidae

    A gap in the paper, giving to the complex an uncomplete figure is that there are no samples taken in Italy and even worse from Sicily, that are rigth in the middle of the distribution range and that sure would have given some important information, chiefly as Sicily is kind of bridge between...
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    Omani Owl

    ooops Richard, sorry I was not shouting ...its always may way to underline and stress some parts I want to be better visible... Now I know (after so many years, I am getting slow in get the tecnology ;-)) what it means when in LIKE SO !!! :-)))
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    Migrating Eagles-1 (in Turkey)

    3 and 4 are dark morph booteds
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    Omani Owl

    I do not quite understand why while its absolutely normal for many European birders and all great Britain ones to call British Storm Petrel a bird breeding all over Europe and to call many taxa Balearic even when most of their population lies and leaves outside those little islands (check...
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    Peregrine or Barbary Falcon, Salalah, Oman

    Well, several years agò, I wrote a paper in Ornithos (French magazine but extensive english summary and english caption to photos!) where I reported for that Barbary Falcon (whatever is lumped or splitted, still is a valid taxon!) have a cline that (roughly...) goes from West to East with two...
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    Osprey taxonomy

    Yes they indeed looks paler, BUT the fact that "...the upperparts are often heavely worn and bleached" sure IS NOT a character itself or anything that lead towards a different taxon. Simply, these population is longer exposed to sun-bleaching than the N European birds, also is more often...
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    Crossbills

    I could supply sound recordings of the population of Crossbills from ETNA volcano, in Sicily. Very interesting and un-named population, with huge bill and plumage colour like N African birds
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    Common Chaffinch populations (Fringilla coelebs ssp.)

    Indeed, harterti has not included in the paper with more photos and no illustration by Lorenzo, as recently has been impossible to visit Lybia :-(((( and there are very few photos of alive birds available. So, Lorenzo did not wanted to work out on plates without see many photos or the birds in...
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    Spotted Flycatcher (Muscicapa striata)

    Wait...and sorry...was a typo writing in forums as usually too much in a hurry :-C. Both Michele and me meant that indeed balearica is distinct, it is a valid taxon, and it is different from tyrrhenica in plumage. About more genetic and voice we are looking further into and deeper...so wait...
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    Spotted Flycatcher (Muscicapa striata)

    Michele already answered extensively...just to confirm and underline Miki's points : Italy is IN Mediterranean basin as well as part of Spain France as well as Greece etc etc. So plenty of different Spotteds taxa around. Easier name are sure often better as correctly Raty mention...but come on...
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    Italian Sparrow

    All very interesting researches that however arise many questions that they not vene tried to address or solve even less: so, why in Sicily there is Passer italiae according to the genetic done but they looks in typical breeding areas cloeser to Spanish in fenotipus ? So, what it is...
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    Falco naumanni pekinensis - PDF open

    Hello please noticed theta the corrected version of the open download PDF on the Chinese Lesser Kestrel and naumanni ssp. and vaeriability is on line now at http://www.biodiversityjournal.com/contents2015_1.html Also, many other subjects (like Carabus ssp. etc) papers thanks Andrea
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    Barbary / Peregrine Falcons

    Mohamed, note also that as back as in 2001 I reported in a identification paper about the fact that Barbary Falcon from Middle East to Morocco show two different main types A - typical field guide Barbary to B- darker "morph", indeede the darker Peregrine-like Moroccan birds. This was widely...
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    Ficedula

    there would be also a paper on the differences in the calls by Robb in the same relevant issue of DB indeed, Richard, very very busy:smoke:B (:B (: other 5 new papers to come soon :eek!::eek!:8-P8-P
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    Potential WP splits

    and of course as usuall you're rigth Laurent ...:king::king:
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    Potential WP splits

    Hello Valéry, read only now your post... I knew of course and sound recorded as well the call of cirtensis being very close or identical to buteo, and indeed that's why also they mate so easely in N Africa, and South Europe, most notably at Pantelleria island and Gibraltar area ! Previous...
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    Ficedula

    Of course, for Morocco, the fact is that observers could not be sure about positively ID iberiae, as you'll read in our paper they are identical or almost so in most plumages -(but not on call and DNA - NB: however, there are no taxonomical discussion on the paper, we did not deal with this...
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    Spotted Flycatcher (Muscicapa striata)

    They ARE DIFFERENT, and believe me, they ARE identifiable in the field ! And YES the call is clinching too Wait wait till the next work by Michele Viganò will come, with also our ID paper :smoke::smoke::king::king:B (:
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