Acanthis
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Hi Michael,Michael Frankis said:Hi Sandy,
I'm told by David Jardine (also my source for the notes about historic Xbill museum skins) that the Dutch Birding CD has some errors on it - particularly, the 'Scottish Crossbills' on it are Parrots; they were apparently recorded at Abernethy before anyone realised there were also lots of Parrots there.
Michael
Thanks for that info! I'll disregard the CDs scotica recordings.
Magnus Robb is a birder rather than a scientist and has since passed all his data on to a ecological biologist - so we may get a clearer picture soon of the situation on the continent.
Despite the flawed Id of Scottish I would still recommend the CD to anyone interested in crossbill calls - there's about 75 tracks covering flight calls, songs, chitters, trumpet calls, alarm calls, excitement calls all available for direct comparison with those of other species and forms, plus the journal has a lengthy guide with loads of useful info too.