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    Gunung Kerinci (featuring tame Schneiders Pitta & world cup thoughts)

    Cheers for all the gen again. If there are any Florican left you will get the best seats in the house... Talking of Sumatran splits I'm reliably informed that the race of White-crested Laughingthrush is about to be split (certainly in the relevant HBW) as well. Possibly Asian taxonomists are...
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    Gunung Kerinci (featuring tame Schneiders Pitta & world cup thoughts)

    Armed with the knowledge that Pak Subandais homestay at Kersik Tua would be showing the World Cup (no more Bengal Florican for Bird Tour Asia if this gen had been wrong) I took advantage of some ridiculously cheap Air Asia flights ('now everyone can pollute') for a ten day visit to Kerinici...
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    Still more world rarities

    Never visited the ornithomedia.com site before but if you can understand French it's excellent. Includes some photos, video and details of the 1200+ Sociable Plover flock in SW Russia is autumn at http://ornithomedia.com/magazine/mag_art266_1.htm.
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    2006 travel / birding plans, anyone ?

    In a quandry - in June do stay in Asia to do rainforest birding in Sumatra or return to Europe early and go to the World Cup in Germany? Beyond that having two trips to less visited areas of Cambodia looking for three Pittas (Bar-bellied, Blue, Blue-rumped), two partridges (Orange-necked &...
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    Anyone with birding tattoos?

    A friend I worked with in Mauritius had a tatoo of a Round Island Petrel - an Pterdroma - tattoed jsut above her ankle. The tatooist, from a rather dodgy shop in the outer suburbs of Port Louis, had clearly not done anything likes this before and took the picture from Birds of the Indian Ocean...
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    Favourite bird family

    What are peoples favourite family of birds? I’d go for two choices: Cuckoos A fantastic variety from the awesome (e.g. ground-cuckoos) to the relatively common yet still fascinating species with their interesting natural history and cultural relevance. There are ID challenges, three fantastic...
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    Cambodia & Thailand trip: companions needed

    Whilst Kouprey may require the same amount of luck as Orange-necked Partidge or even White-eyed River Martin Banteng are definately a possibility - have been recently seen grazing beside one of Cambodias main roads!
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    Cambodia & Thailand trip: companions needed

    I'm looking for companions to share costs for a birding trip to southern Thailand and then into Cambodia, where I work, in mid Dec to mid Jan 2006. Aims will be too visit the 'famous' sites in southern Thailand for the speciaility species - Gurney's & Mangrove Pitta, Nicobar Pigeon...
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    Spine-tinglers

    Agree with Barn Owls. Not very exotic but every time you see them it makes your day. Slightly more obsucrely Alpine Swift are great to watch as well - so large and mega looking as well as any Treeswifts - in my opinion a combination of swift, bee-eater, falcon all mixed up.
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    list of birding ambitions

    Rediscover White-eyed River Martin Prevent Bengal Florican going extinct Find a first for Suffolk A bit listy I know but get 450 species in the UK and 5,000 in the world (long, long way to go) See Ibisbill and Wallcreeper on the same day
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    Continuing loss of habitat in S America

    Agricultural intensification in the tropics is THE most neglected and under researched issue in conservation. We all know how modern intensive farming has ravaged eco-systems in Europe and North America causing huge declines in farmland biodiversity (increasing evidence from South Africa as...
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    Bird Survey Technique

    Hi Tim, How did you survey Snipe this way and was it during the breeding season? For example how many people were involved/how far apart/was some-one else counting the flushed birds etc. Do you know if there's any information on this technqiue in bird survey books or on the web. The reason I...
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    Bird Survey Technique

    Does anyone know about the use of a chain to flush ground-nesting birds in order to survey secretive species in open grassland habitats? I remember a Canadian researcher once mentioned they did it (dragging a chain behind a 4-wheel drive?) to survey nesting waders on Tundra. Has anyone got any...
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    Current Book Deals

    Has the taxonomic order been changed again??
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    South East Asia

    Bar far the best is the Robson Birds of South-East Asia published by New Holland. Laos appears a relatively un-birded place - it would be great to get some good reports from there as I'm sure its full of good birds. Hoping to be there myself in the spring
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    Essential books

    A county aviafauna is always good bet - excellent recent ones for Norfolk and Suffolk published by Pica Press. Don't know what the current Yorkshire one is like though. Old ones make fascinating reading as well for Suffolk - Payne from the 1970s, Ticheurst 1930s and Babbington late 19th century...
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    What "blockers" have you got on your list?

    My generation of UEA boys got the second Cley pair (1999?) so not really a blocker. Great birds though, my girlfriend at the time said it was the most excited shes ever heard me sound :eek!:
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    What "blockers" have you got on your list?

    Is it true that at UEA he once stole a car from Avenue Road for the Cornish American Kestrel and returned it the next day to the same place after a rather large round trip?
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    What "blockers" have you got on your list?

    YB Cuckoo and Chimney Swift aren't really blockers yet I'm a kid lister but have got both. The classic is of course the Suffolk Houbara (did any BFers see it?). For people with Eye-browed Thrush, anyone active in the 80s I'd guess, this could be a good one - when was the last twitchable one of...
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    The Cormorant Culling Debate

    Actually you do. The majoirty (certainly >75%) of scientific studies on birds require catching them for ringing/radio-tracking/individual-marking etc. OK this isn't even vaguelly related to this thread but I'm just feeling argumentative.
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    Ticking Feral Pigeon

    Breeding success in Bustards generally fairly low - high chick mortality from foxes etc. in Spain. Fairly good exmaples of K selected species which have low intrinsic rates of population increase
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    Ticking Feral Pigeon

    Can species be relegated from Cat C if they ever become un self-sustaining? Lady A's Phesant surely a fair contender
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    'British Birds' Rarities issue

    Go to a Uni liabray to read it. Thats what I did today ;) The copy I read had a very random systematic order with Geese and ducks first and WB Diver coming in at about species 20 followed by the usual suspeccts. Was this a printing error in the copy I saw or have BB created a new world order?
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    Ticking Feral Pigeon

    Several points to make in my slightly pissed state B (: The famous example of surviving at a very low level is the Mauritius Kestrel a species I've been lucky enough to work on. At its lowest ebb the wild population of MK was around 3 birds. Captive breeding and a series of intensive...
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    The Cormorant Culling Debate

    Whilst I have no problem with conservationists killing things I would have liked more science before the government agreed to the comornant kill. Whilst I'm not eintirly au fait with the literature the papers I have read on this subject suggest that Comorant culls are unlikely to reuslt in...
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