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Recent content by James Jobling

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    BOW Key

    Thank you, Jim and Laurent (historically!), In the absence of anything to the contrary and in fervent anticipation, in The Key I now treat Eunetta Bonaparte, 1856, as a current genus, with A. formosa as the type, and relegated Sibirionetta von Boetticher, 1929, to its synonym.
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    BOW Key

    Not much is impossible for The Key! What authority/subsequent designation can you give for changing the type of Eunetta?
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    Gabar Goshawk Melierax gabar

    Laurent and Ian, Re Gabar; I am still working on a form of words to include your fishing nets. Re Crombec; amended, thank you. Re Tachard; I can see where Rookmaaker’s “spots” are coming from, and certainly Levaillant’s description refers to taches, but his initial comment about Klaas collecting...
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    Gabar Goshawk Melierax gabar

    Ian, Thank you for your observations. From previous threads in this forum, you will recall that both my previous dictionaries (OUP 1991, and Helm 2010) are useful historical references, but have been superseded by The Key to Scientific Names, an online and free publication of the Cornell Lab...
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    BOW Key

    The Key (see #390); more updates: to misquote Henry II, “Will no one rid me of this turbulent purism?” —Acrolia, Aerolia, Agrilorhynchus, Ancylorhinus, Anobapton, Anthothreptes, Arbelorhina, Ardeola, —Brachonyx, Brachypternus, Brachyrhamphus, —Calliparaea, Calliphox, Campylops, Catharistes...
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    Naivashi Lake, Kenya - March #17

    Could the robin chat be Ruppell's Robin Chat Cossypha semirufa? Are the central tail-feathers blackish (Ruppell's) or olive-brown (White-browed)?
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    Masai Mara, Kenya - March #16

    For the weaver I would say either female Vitelline Masked Weaver Ploceus velatus or female Golden-backed Weaver Ploceus jacksoni (both have red eyes and are yellowish beneath; Vitelline has pink legs, but Golden-backed has more yellow underneath).
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    Kiskadee/Flycatcher - Brazil, Mato Grosso, Passo de Lontra, Pantanal Jungle Lodge

    I would agree with your reasoning; the bill is Great Kiskadee Pitangus sulphuratus.
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    M. Chapoul

    I'm afraid not, Martin. Your guy was born in the Dordogne in 1838.
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    Another Raptor - Brazil, Mato Grosso, Passo de Lontra, Pantanal Jungle Lodge

    Roadside Hawk Buteo/Rupornis magnirostris (imm.)
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    Cowbird/Blackbird - Argentina, Buenos Aires, Retiro

    Yes, given the new photos I also now opt for Shiny Cowbird. I may have been over-influenced by the Shiny Cowbird parasitising the Chopi Blackbird. Lead me to the nearest sanatorium for the bewildered!
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    M. Chapoul

    Thanks Paul, what a splendid read! I fear my skimpy definition in The Key will fail to do it justice.
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    Cowbird/Blackbird - Argentina, Buenos Aires, Retiro

    Peter, Can you confirm that the two photographs are definitely of the same bird. I don’t wish to throw a spanner in the works, but, for me, the two birds exhibit different jizzes. The perched bird is certainly a Shiny Cowbird Molothrus bonariensis (chunky build, domed head, glossy plumage...
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    Giant Nest Birds - Argentina, Buenos Aires / Iguazu Waterfalls

    The first certainly puts me in mind of a female or juv. Shiny Cowbird Molothrus bonariensis, but the pale legs and feet and streaked breast and flanks leads me also to a female Saffron Finch Sicalis flaveola (altho' the face pattern and dark chin are rather disconcerting).
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    No Clue Bird - Brazil, Mato Grosso, Passo de Lontra, Pantanal Jungle Lodge

    Baywing Agelaioides badius
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