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  1. DMW

    Japanese Cormorant, Nanhui, Shanghai, China

    Structure of head and bill also looks good for Japanese, I think.
  2. DMW

    Best birding trips in Central/South America?

    Perhaps worth noting that there's currently civil unrest in Ecuador and government advisories against travel to parts of the country. I've no idea what the reality of risk is on the ground but at the least it might affect validity of travel insurance.
  3. DMW

    BirdLife SA cruise to Marion Island

    In case anybody is interested, BirdLife South Africa are running this cruise again, open to non-members.
  4. DMW

    Pipit ID. Shirza, Iran

    For anybody who wants to link faunal regions with political boundaries, Burma is particularly problematic, spanning the edge of the Palearctic to the Sundaic.
  5. DMW

    Case-bearing Clothes Moth?

    If you have carpet in the room, I'd check under furniture and along the skirting board for cocoons...
  6. DMW

    Southern Africa Trip - Looking for input

    One thing I would suggest considering, if you have the time, is making this a loop starting and finishing in Joburg. This would allow you to add the Bushmanland area of SA, then cross into southern Namibia and do Sossusvlei before heading north. Although it's a fair distance, the roads are...
  7. DMW

    Yellow-breasted Bunting?

    This has me wondering whether Yellow-throated Petronia can be excluded?
  8. DMW

    Yellow-breasted Bunting?

    Yes, it looks like the sun was low when this photo was taken and I think light and maybe saturation is giving a yellow cast.
  9. DMW

    Yellow-breasted Bunting?

    Chaffinches again...
  10. DMW

    Amami - a conservation success story

    I visited the southern Japanese island of Amami last month, and was pleased to learn that the introduced Indian Mongoose population has apparently been eradicated following a very significant programme of trapping. Mongeese were introduced to control the population of native venomous snakes, but...
  11. DMW

    Javan Tiger may still survive

    After reported a sighting near a village in West Java, DNA analysis of a hair sample apparently matches for Javan Tiger. This sounds promising! Javan Tiger May Not Be Extinct After All, DNA Analysis Of Hair Suggests
  12. DMW

    Field Guide to Birds of Greater Southern Africa

    I DO see a point in disagreeing with a personal opinion when your own opinion (and clearly that of others) is not in concordance. You might as well say you don't see the point in reviewing a book, since it's just a personal opinion. For what it's worth, I think the Petrel plates John posted...
  13. DMW

    Best non WP location for WP birds

    I guess it depends whether you mean regular WP breeding birds, or include vagrants, but some obvious destinations would be NW India, Kenya, China and Thailand.
  14. DMW

    Whitethroat in Rajasthan

    I once spent 2 days in the desert outside Jaisalmer looking at Lesser Whitethroats trying to work out what I was looking at, and basically admitted defeat! There seemed to be an infinite shades of grey variation 😵‍💫
  15. DMW

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

    To be fair, Pete Kaestner also had BBBQ on his list. There are some birds which were widely misidentified in the past, and birders ticked them in good faith. It's very easy to forget just how poor identification material was for many species until the last decade or two. We've all made mistakes...
  16. DMW

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

    As Andy says, STP is not guaranteed anywhere and has always been considered a bird to target at Tam Dao in Vietnam, or in SE China, both of which can present logistical challenges. It's only recently that it's become available in Thailand. It's a fantastic little bird. Yes, Asian bird...
  17. DMW

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

    Most of these birds are habituated to the food put out in front of the hide and don't need to be taped-in.
  18. DMW

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

    😑
  19. DMW

    Uganda and Rwanda: 1 to 22 June 2024

    There are some distinctive subspecies which have been trailed as a likely split for decades, and a lot of birders make the effort to see these as an insurance tick (or merely because they actually want to see them!), and bird company tour itineraries are a good source for these. However, in...
  20. DMW

    Uganda and Rwanda: 1 to 22 June 2024

    I can see how my comment was ambiguous, but I was talking about devoting time to seeing common / widespread species you've already seen elsewhere just to get a longer trip list. For example, spending a morning at a wetland or coastal site where there's almost certainly nothing new might get you...
  21. DMW

    Paul's 2024 World List

    I would say you've got a very solid platform for planning future SE Asia trips. Thailand is pretty unimpressive as far as strict national endemics go, but is far and away the best country for seeing a lot of regional specialities, and also has a lot of "functional endemics" - birds which do...
  22. DMW

    Paul's 2024 World List

    I don't think these "crude" statistics mean very much in world birding. Seeing an extra 50 globally or regionally common and widespread species is of little significance to most keen world birders, who are generally far more target-oriented. I guess tour companies like to pad their lists for...
  23. DMW

    Petition to AOS Leadership on the Recent Decision to Change all Eponymous Bird Names

    I think the point you are missing is that it's a personal history for a lot of us. We've grown up with many of these names, and they have emotional attachment. Dismissing this as "whining" says more about your lack of imagination than anything. Disrupting stability in common names for no reason...
  24. DMW

    Latest IOC Diary Updates

    Perhaps as the next stage of destruction of our ornithological history in the name of DEI, naming rights can be sold off to corporate bidders. How about Facebook Partridge?
  25. DMW

    Birds of China

    If you look at the map outline, all of Arunachal Pradesh is included as Chinese territory in all the range maps. At least that's how it appears to me.
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