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Recent content by Jan van der Laan

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    Ultimate Indonesia: 4 month search for endemics

    Hi Ross & Melissa, At least in observado, Sander stores his records. Note several records of the Hantu Boobook. I enjoyed your blog very much, and thanks for sharing it! happy birding and save trip home!
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    Ultimate Indonesia: 4 month search for endemics

    The Madanga was also photographed and sound-recorded by two Dutch birders, Sander Lagerveld and Leon Edelaar in december 2013 in a private expedition: https://www.dutchbirding.nl/gallery/detail/12169?page=0#navbar-collapse Way before Birdquest was bragging they had rediscovered it after the...
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    Taiwan - Birding Reports

    I was there on 29 & 30 April. The road is still closed as there was a landslide just above KM 47. There is a steep walking trail from KM 43 all the way up to KM 49 - it takes three hours - and you can see almost all specialties along this trail like Barwing, Golden Parrotbill, Shortwing...
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    2016 - World Yearlist Record Attempt

    He must have seen real pulverulentus at the Candaban Marshes (place where he saw the Baikal Teal) if in doubt about about the Mindanao birds.
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    2016 - World Yearlist Record Attempt

    Looks like a great score! One minor correction needed: Moluccan Kingfisher Ceyx lepidus must be Papuan Kingfisher Ceyx solitarius. EDIT: already corrected!
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    2016 - World Yearlist Record Attempt

    Good recordings of the Woodcock are here http://macaulaylibrary.org/audio/181893 Wish we had these on Kerinci in March 2014 when Arjan Brenkman and I succesfully stringed the bat too.
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    Sumatra March 2014

    Between 21 and 30 March this year we (two Dutch birders) visited Sumatra. We didn't want to visit Kerinci during peak time (July-August) and theorized March was a better time for e.g. Schneider's Pitta as this is the start of the breeding season. And who is going to look for e.e Great Reed...
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    RFI: Gurney's Pitta still at Khao Nor Chuchi?

    I was the one who saw the female in July 2013. I was there with Yotin. He told me that the female of his favourite pair in the U-trail area was captured in december 2012 for a captive breeding program. In that captive breeding program there were three males and no females. The male wandered...
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