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  1. Strontium Dog

    Bird seen in Lanzarote, Teguise

    It's a Northern Wheatear, Sammy. A passage migrant in the Canaries.
  2. Strontium Dog

    Mallorca 2024

    I am in Mallorca next month, at the hotel right on the edge of Albufera, this is really whetting my appetite as seven of the birds you mentioned there would be lifers for me!
  3. Strontium Dog

    A pure White Kookaburra

    The article posted is from 2013. Different bird.
  4. Strontium Dog

    A pure White Kookaburra

    It has dark eyes, so leucistic.
  5. Strontium Dog

    Do you count heard only birds on your life list?

    Definitely option 4. I don't know where the skill is in simply hearing something? Plus with the abundance of talented mimics around, how could you ever be sure that what you think you're hearing is what you're actually hearing - unless you see it.
  6. Strontium Dog

    Europeans, which American bird would you most like to see?

    My encounter with Cedar Waxwings was a quite magical moment, I was strolling through the university quad, and suddenly there they were, a whole flock of them in a tree at eye level, as if out of nowhere. Not one other person seemed to even notice them, I guess they're just "birds" to the...
  7. Strontium Dog

    Two people break 10,000 species, and on the same day? Can it be?

    I have a weak aspiration to reach 1k. I feel like that would be a respectable number for anyone who doesn't manage to do any serious birding. What is deeply confusing is that even with less than 400, I somehow do have the aforementioned Tufted Puffin. With the greatest respect in the world, I...
  8. Strontium Dog

    South Island Kokako......?

  9. Strontium Dog

    Herring Gull, North Shields, UK.

    Because I've seen photos of apparent hybrids which have had some similarity to this bird? Seems we can rule it out now though, which is good.
  10. Strontium Dog

    Herring Gull, North Shields, UK.

    I am very much not a gull expert, but can hybrid Herring x Lesser Black Backed be ruled out? Any photos with a better view of the mantle would help there I guess.
  11. Strontium Dog

    Chickadee Confusion in Hunterdon County NJ

    I would have thought Carolina Chickadee was less likely than Black-Capped in northern NJ?
  12. Strontium Dog

    English river pollution

    Thank goodness we're no longer beholden to all those EU regulations that stopped us pumping our rivers full of turds. Another Brexit dividend.
  13. Strontium Dog

    Non-US Bird on TV

    I believe this is Chestnut-colored Woodpecker from Central America.
  14. Strontium Dog

    Owl viewing ethics

    FWIW, Barn Owl is the only owl species I've ever seen in the UK, and on multiple occasions. That arguably says more about my skill as a birder than it does about species rarity.
  15. Strontium Dog

    Owl viewing ethics

    There's an RSPB reserve I know which has Little Owls and is totally paranoid about anyone mentioning their existence on social media. In fact, the unofficial Facebook discussion group is presently "paused" as the admin is fed up with actually adminning the group to remove posts about them. It's...
  16. Strontium Dog

    Birding and football

    I have to say Paul, that is very different to what I've heard from Liverpool fans who went to the CL final in Istanbul in 2005, I don't think any of them had a shred of trouble. Paris in 2022 on the other hand was apparently an awful experience for those who went. The idiot who thought putting...
  17. Strontium Dog

    RSPB Reserves-Open Data

    I note from a cursory look that RSPB Fairhaven Lake is not included. I wonder how comprehensive this is.
  18. Strontium Dog

    How do you keep your lifelist, and what is included?

    BUBO IOC world list is all I actively use. I do have an eBird account but never recorded anything there, it seems like hard work. Pity, because the species map stuff is very useful.
  19. Strontium Dog

    AOS to discard patronyms in English names

    I'm a vegetarian, can we rename butcherbirds?
  20. Strontium Dog

    sueter why do bluetits go in and out of the box now in November

    Even birds want to be indoors in this weather. I cannot say I blame them.
  21. Strontium Dog

    AOS to discard patronyms in English names

    I'm actually surprised they haven't started on birds with "Oriental" in the name, a quick check shows at least 16 species. A perfectly innocuous term the world over, but in the USA considered offensive.
  22. Strontium Dog

    AOS to discard patronyms in English names

    For goodness sake, nobody tell these self-appointed tightasses what black coloured birds are called in Spanish.
  23. Strontium Dog

    Current fuss in North America about eponymous English bird names

    Amazingly, I can actually confirm this. When I worked as a journalist I spoke to the local shopping centre manager, whose surname was MacGillivray, and he was thrilled when I told him there was a bird called MacGillivray's Warbler. As you say, names are relatable. I've never met anyone who told...
  24. Strontium Dog

    AOS to discard patronyms in English names

    So they took a bird that was named for the wholly benign Robert Cushman Murphy, and renamed it after islands known primarily for piracy and child sex abuse. That just about sums it up.
  25. Strontium Dog

    AOS to discard patronyms in English names

    As alluded to earlier, the American Ornithological Society is literally named after an Italian slave trader. They should cast the beam out of their own eye before they even think of lecturing to anyone else.
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