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  1. Mysticete

    Birding tours in Hawaii in June?

    You probably are not going to find any regularly organized tours in summer, except maybe more informal ones led by a local birding club/Audubon chapter. Peak birding season is generally winter and early spring, although most everything other than Bristle-thighed Curlew should be around for your...
  2. Mysticete

    Turdidae

    Another Swainson's Thrush paper just came out. Mapping seasonal migration in a songbird hybrid zone -- heritability, genetic correlations, and genomic patterns linked to speciation...
  3. Mysticete

    Poll - Do you agree or disagree with the AOS's recent decision to abandon the use of eponymous bird names?

    Indeed. Hell, apparently AOS has already voted on the third set of proposals this year for the annual update, and we haven't even gotten a look at what those proposals are.
  4. Mysticete

    The ebird update - How do you like it?..

    I like the new look...it will take a bit to get adjusted to the new placement of things, but don't see the doom and gloom people are preaching about the update.
  5. Mysticete

    Aegithalidae

    I wouldn't expect movement on this without nuclear DNA and a examination of the hybrid zones, at minimal.of the World suggests the two populations come into contact, or at least get close to one another.
  6. Mysticete

    Gentrification attracts wildlife

    I think a bigger problem (speaking of only the states...I won't comment on other countries) is that economic conditions make it difficult to get that spark of interest to begin with. When parents are working multiple jobs (or there is just a single parent) just to make ends meet, they simply...
  7. Mysticete

    Gentrification attracts wildlife

    I'm suspicious the "kids recognize more pokemon than animals" is actually a new phenomena. I'd bet if you looked at any decade, most kids would probably be more able to recognize cartoon characters, toy characters, film and TV characters, or professional athletes than wildlife (I have trouble...
  8. Mysticete

    AOU-NACC Proposals 2024

    Am I mistaken, or is this from a batch of proposals that isn't even released yet to the general public?
  9. Mysticete

    Subspecies groups and future splits

    When there is an existing name in use (even if the name kind of sucks?) I generally go with that name. I'm trying not to reinvent the wheel since too many "novel" decisions makes the list less useful for other folks. That said, I would give fairly low probability to Volcano Hummingbird being...
  10. Mysticete

    Turdidae

    For those curious about the votes of the proposal in question: https://americanornithology.org/about/committees/nacc/current-prior-proposals/2021-proposals/comments-2021-c/#2021-C-19
  11. Mysticete

    Turdidae

    IIRC, there was a failed proposal to split Swainson's Thrush a few years ago that the AOS voted on. I wonder if this paper would change there minds, or if selection against hybrids due to migration patterns mismatch is not considered a "valid mechanism" to enforce speciation.
  12. Mysticete

    Subspecies groups and future splits

    Glacial progress, but some progress. Next batch: suggestions always recommended Giant Hummingbird Southern Giant Hummingbird - Patagonas (gigas) gigas Northern Giant Hummingbird - Patagonas (gigas) peruviana Amethyst-throated Mountaingem Amethyst-throated Mountaingem - Lampornis (amethystinus)...
  13. Mysticete

    Furnariidae

    Treat Xenops minutus as three species https://www.museum.lsu.edu/~Remsen/SACCprop996.htm
  14. Mysticete

    The 10% Club - Milestones

    Peninsular Malaysia...feels a bit more affordable and a better introduction, and I don't have the finances to do Borneo on the same trip.
  15. Mysticete

    The 10% Club - Milestones

    Near-term goals: First, I would like to hit 2000 species before my 46th birthday, which is basically less than 2 years from now. I am hoping I can maybe pull off a short Belize trip this summer (40-60 potential lifers), and a trip to Malaysia next year (200+ lifers), so I think this is doable...
  16. Mysticete

    Sulidae

    Going to need something to counteract to partially counteract that redpoll lump...?
  17. Mysticete

    Phylogeny of birds

    Can someone send me the direct link? The extended data page I found for the paper has captions but no actual figures. There is no extended data link in the supplementary material as far as I can see, and I don't have access, at least at home, to more than the abstract. So if there is a link in...
  18. Mysticete

    Phylogeny of birds

    I didn't see it in the supplemental material: Is there a "readable" tree with the families labeled, especially one with a timescale like the big figure posted here?
  19. Mysticete

    Disturbance of birds by drones

    I think they have even trained large birds of prey to specifically do this for military purposes...
  20. Mysticete

    Petition for a dedicated sub-sub forum for eponymous name rants

    I don't think we need a separate subforum, just policing so that it goes to the existing threads on the topic.
  21. Mysticete

    Lynx Edicions - What Next ?

    One kind of wonders if Lynx's hesitance with field guides might simply be a result of financial issues. They might not have the ability to invest significantly in the production of new guides as they did before.
  22. Mysticete

    Time calibration and Linnean ranks in birds

    The following are the families that would be LOST using this metric Corcoracidae (Apostlebirds) and Ifritidae (Blue-capped Ifrits) - low diversity groups that would be merged and treated as subfamilies within a broader Paradisaeidae. Not one hundred % sold that the dates are as young as they...
  23. Mysticete

    Time calibration and Linnean ranks in birds

    Since my last post I have received the Largest Avian Radiation book and have skimmed through that source, as well as other papers. The authors of that books suggest a good cut off for Passeriformes would be 20 million years, but then include so many exceptions that it kind of renders trying to...
  24. Mysticete

    Accipitridae

    This year's batch of NACC proposals includes one to split off the Caribbean A. striatus, although if I recall correctly the proposal doesn't call for splitting off each island population, which I think the original paper argued for?
  25. Mysticete

    OD of Brachypteraciidae

    Someone really need to publish a "new" actually accurate review of existing bird family level names. People go with bock mostly because it can be challenging to search the really old literature. Of course such a work would take a lot of time, and probably be hard to publish :(
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