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Recent content by Tiraya

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    Scottish Crossbill - Yes? No? Never?

    Basically everyone I know over here will disown you and pretend they don't know you if you consider Cassia a separate species, or by any means "worth" going for.
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    Carpet Beetle sp? Cyprus

    It doesn't not look like verbasci, and in my experience verbasci tends to be relatively distinct. I think it's in its own subgenus? Anyway, these can all be ruled out by me except sordidulus which I'm unfamiliar with. A. molitor I don't know but it is apparently a uniform plain species. A...
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    Dragonfly that lights up

    I can happily vouch that no such mushroom has been involved in my life to date, same with alcohol -- dull I know. I'm great fun at parties :p But you know what they say, the less fun you have, the more crazy you become!
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    Dragonfly that lights up

    I agree with others, it's likely a visual illusion caused by shifting angles of the body (in flight), wing reflection, or some other effect of sunlight interacting with the body that causes the effect. The video a couple posts up is a reasonable example, but I've seen instances where it was even...
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    Rare(?) Orchid, Cyprus

    C'mon Andy, you survived the "accommodations" at Satchari National Park, a password system won't defeat you!!
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    Uganda and Rwanda: 1 to 22 June 2024

    Are the prices listed in USD? I can never tell with the African-based ones as sometimes they use the $ for local currency too.
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    Need help on this…NEast London.

    Ken, your first call here should have been to check the calendar, clearly!
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    March Moths

    I was always curious how folks got moths at this time of year! I recall two very disappointing attempts to do so in my childhood, and getting no moths both times. Do you put out heated blankets to lure in the heat-loving critters!? Seeing both the aforementioned "March Moth" and "Oak Beauty"...
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    Xeno canto access

    In some places, I've heard support for this. Some of the bird guides have expressed it helps their business because it pressures birders into hiring a guide when they can't do their own research. Actually, one of the main reasons there was no audio available for Socotra Bunting was this...
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    Xeno canto access

    I was never here "early enough" to experience the hay day of XC. Anytime I've used it, I've wanted to help learn bird songs and calls for upcoming trips, but it turns out any species I needed to learn was restricted and unavailable...
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    Woodhouse? California? Hybrid Scrub-jay Nevada USA

    The record will become useless if the user rejects the fix, by the way eBird works. Rare sightings are "unconfirmed/not accepted" by default until a reviewer vouches for it and accepts it. Unconfirmed rare sightings do not show up on range maps or end up in any sighting databases or summaries.
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    Woodhouse? California? Hybrid Scrub-jay Nevada USA

    It doesn't matter, because if the record is incorrect, it'll be fixed and no false data is created. The point here is there is no way to contact eBird reviewers who know the birds in the area very well without submitting a rare report...that's why it was suggested above to post as Woodhouse's to...
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    Wheatear from UAE

    Thanks for the thorough look! Unfortunately it was only perched momentarily on this fence overlooking a steep cliff, and I could not have chased down the mountain after it even if I tried...it seems reasonably safely put to chrysopygia (sensu stricto) though, given that and the location...
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    Wheatear from UAE

    That's what I was concerned about, since I think those "two" are both documented here (and if so, I assume red-tailed "isn't" simultaneously by virtue of the split). It seems Persian would be the most likely here. I'm just glad it isn't isabelline which is what it felt like from a distance.
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    Wheatear from UAE

    I only saw Hume's on this section of the trip, but this is evidently something "else". Any opinions? It seems to have some orange on the tail but based on how they overlapped it was only sometimes visible.
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