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    Vagrancy in Birds

    Should be a fantastic read given the authors: Vagrancy in Birds
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    Birds of southeast Brazil

    A new photographic guide to the birds of southeast Brazil. It's in Portuguese, and it's not clear to me whether it's available outside of Brazil, but it looks good from the sample pages and the authors are well respected...
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    New Grallaricula from Colombia

    I guess more details will be forthcoming soon, but a press conference was held today by the mayor of Cali to announce the discovery of a new species of Grallaricula antpitta from Farallones de Cali National Park just outside the city...
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    Long-billed Gnatwren

    Harvey et al (http://www.museum.lsu.edu/OccPap/81.pdf) report two morphologically and vocally-distinct subspecies occurring in sympatry or near-sympatry in Peru and suggest a split, with suggested English names of Trilling and Chattering Gnatwren
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    New Herpsilochmus antwrens

    I don't know if this has been mentioned here before, but xeno-canto has recordings of three undescribed Herpsilochmus antwrens. 'Inambari-Tambopata' Antwren (a photo of which currently graces the xeno-canto americas homepage) http://www.xeno-canto.org/XCspeciesprofiles.php?species_nr2=2090.99...
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    Tanager taxonomy

    I'm not sure if this paper has been mentioned yet in this forum: http://www.faae.org.co/colombiabiodiversa/publicacion/Sedano&Burns_2010.pdf It makes for some fascinating reading, I've only skimmed through it so far but there is lots of interesting stuff, including several Thraupis being...
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    Cameroon: Wahlberg's Honeybird?

    I took this photo about 10 days ago in the Bafut-Nguemba forest reserve above Lake Awing, near Bamenda, southwest Cameroon, at an altitude of about 2000 meters. The best I can come up with is an immature Wahlberg's Honeybird (Prodotiscus regulus), but this was my first African trip so I have...
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    B&L Elite 8x42 (1999 model) repairs

    I have a pair of 8x42 Bausch&Lomb Elites that I purchased in 1999. They have gotten near constant (ab)use over the last 10 years, and I am very happy with them as my primary binocular. However, there is now a problem with the focusing wheel, which tends to become very stiff and lock up...
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    Orange-bellied or Purple-throated Euphonia?

    Hi, I was wondering if I could get some feedback on this female Euphonia mist-netted in Yanachaga-Chemillen NP, central Peru, at about 1100m elevation. It is either Orange-bellied or Purple-throated, but I'm struggling in part because the illustrations of females of these two species in the...
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