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Complete families of birds seen (1 Viewer)

andyadcock said:
Have you got this one?

https://budgetbirders.com/2015/08/3...rlet-banded-barbet-excursion-june-27-28-2015/


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Andy

It's a doddle, once you get there; saw 3 in July in trees by the village (though they may have been chopped since).

Toucans easy enough except for very hard Yellow-browed Toucanet (I think one of may mates has seen all bar this).

Penguins are not that difficult - I've seen them all for a lot less than £25,000 although I was lucky with Emperor!

My lowest percentage is probably Indigobirds - a group I'll leave for the stringers! ;)

cheers, alan
 
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Maffong said:
What about Petrels and Shearwaters? They're scattered all over the oceans, some of them really rare and I guess you'd have to spend numerous weeks aboard ships in not always favourable circumstances.
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I think HS and perhaps CC and others have seen all of these.

cheers, alan
 
lewis20126 said:
Andy

It's a doddle, once you get there; saw 3 in July in trees by the village (though they may have been chopped since).

cheers, alan
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That was my point really Alan, the effort in getting there, this was one of the aspects, mentioned in an earlier post in regard to the work required seeing a species.

So anyone seen all the Asian Ground Cuckoos? Even the easiest, Coral-billed is probably tricky now that the Khao Yai bird isn't there?

Anyone seen all the races of Island Thrush, got to be a few armchair ticks in there?


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Larry Sweetland said:
IOC have already split those laughers Andy, it's the bottom bunch of laughers on their list
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Bottom of the list on my updated Scythebill doc are not 'Kerala and 'Travancore Laughingthrush' but Palani and Ashambu, that's what defeated my search!


Cheers, A
 
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Wow, I thought I'd have a lot, but no. Just Hoatzin, Palmchat, Donocabius, Hammerkop, Sunbittern, Olive Warbler, and Oxpeckers(2).

I'd imagine many people with the three Tropicbirds?
 
Silky-flycatchers (4)
Hamerkop (1)
Sunbittern (1)
Limpkin (1)
Ibisbill (1)
Bearded Reedling (1)
Black-capped Donacobius (1)
Wallcreeper (1)
Bananaquit (1)

Not very impressive... :-O
 
Divers are the only multi species family I've completed. Also seen the following single species families: Hamerkop, Sunbittern, Limpkin, Hoatzin, Oilbird, Palmchat, Bearded Tit, Donacobius.

Bananaquit no longer counts as IOC lumped it during the latest shuffle of Tanagers
 
Using HBW taxonomy, I've completed 26 families - 21 single species (Magpie Goose, Sunbittern, Oilbird, Hoatzin, Limpkin, Hamerkop, Shoebill, Egyptian Plover, Ibisbill, Crab Plover, Osprey, Cuckoo Roller, Sapayoa, Bristlehead, Crested Jay, Bearded Reedling, Donacobius, Hypocolius, Prezvalski's Rosefinch, Thrush-Tanager and Wrenthrush), three doubles (Hoopoes, Toucan-Barbets and Oxpeckers), a four (Darters) and the five Divers.
 
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