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  1. Melanie

    Your most anticipated futures books

    Lost Wonders 10 Tales of Extinction from the 21st Century Scheduled for Nov 2024 https://www.nhbs.com/lost-wonders-book
  2. Melanie

    Your most anticipated futures books

    Just published Minetor, Randi The Complete Language of Birds: A Definitive and Illustrated History https://www.buteobooks.com/pages/books/15448/randi-minetor/the-complete-language-of-birds-a-definitive-and-illustrated-history
  3. Melanie

    More Evidence That “Feathered Dinosaurs” Were Secondarily Flightless Birds

    Günter Bechly: More Evidence That “Feathered Dinosaurs” Were Secondarily Flightless Birds https://evolutionnews.org/2024/09/fossil-friday-more-evidence-that-feathered-dinosaurs-were-secondarily-flightless-birds/
  4. Melanie

    Fred Ruhe

    Not to forget Fred's contact with the SAPE. Every year he was the first who published the SAPE Newsletter in the BirdForum. Who will do this in the future?
  5. Melanie

    Fossil Birds of Brazil - Aves Fósseis do Brasil

    In 2022, the BirdForum member Rafael Silva do Nascimento (RSN) has defended his master's thesis which is also available as an e-book https://www.teses.usp.br/teses/disponiveis/38/38131/tde-25022022-111245/publico/rsnascimento_dissertacao_final_versao_ingles.pdf
  6. Melanie

    Fred Ruhe

    Fred was also an extremely helpful person as you can see on this paper https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/27394294/
  7. Melanie

    Fred Ruhe

    I would like to remind on the Global Owl Project of which Fred was a member https://www.biologicaldiversity.org/campaigns/global_owl_project/descriptions/
  8. Melanie

    Fred Ruhe passed away 17 August 2024

    I am so sad. It was such an honour for me to learn from his knowledge and to be with him in e-mail contact. My condolences to you and your family.
  9. Melanie

    Fred Ruhe

    I'm absolutely shocked and I miss him so much.
  10. Melanie

    ID Handbook of European Birds - thoughts, comments thread

    I've cancelled my order at Amazon and made a new order at Ebay 1,5 weeks ago. Today I've got the print copy though for 10 euros more than at Amazon but better than wait until November.
  11. Melanie

    ID Handbook of European Birds - thoughts, comments thread

    Yesterday I've got an e-Book-Version of this book at DeGruyter (for free via my Wikipedia account). Interesting that they have include the Northern Bald Ibis among the non-native birds.
  12. Melanie

    ID Handbook of European Birds - thoughts, comments thread

    Thank you very much for this information. Now I have a better understanding.
  13. Melanie

    Trochilidae

    This was fast: Patagona chaski should be treated as junior synonym of Patogona peruviana The world’s largest hummingbird was described 131 years ago Summary.—A recent paper in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA argued that Giant Hummingbird Patagona gigas comprises two...
  14. Melanie

    ID Handbook of European Birds - thoughts, comments thread

    And what about Cyprus or Türkiye?
  15. Melanie

    ID Handbook of European Birds - thoughts, comments thread

    Does it mean that the Azores and the Canarian Islands are excluded from the book?
  16. Melanie

    ID Handbook of European Birds - thoughts, comments thread

    Do they consider the Gran Canarian Chaffinch as species or as subspecies?
  17. Melanie

    Lynx Edicions - What Next ?

    There will be a new book on neotropical primates from September 2024
  18. Melanie

    "Lost" birds. Again

    The Mussau triller has been rediscovered after 45 years. Seems that Mussau is not easy to access like many other regions in Papua New Guinea. https://www.rewild.org/news/birders-rediscover-lost-species-on-mussau-in-papua-new-guinea
  19. Melanie

    ID Handbook of European Birds - thoughts, comments thread

    Amazon will wait until November before they will send the volumes to me
  20. Melanie

    Sphen has died

    Sphen and his partner Magic from Sea Life Sydney were one of the most famous examples on homosexuality in animal kingdom. Sphen was an 11 year old gentoo penguin who died this week. https://abcnews.go.com/Entertainment/wireStory/australian-penguin-sphen-half-famed-same-sex-couple-113054601
  21. Melanie

    Cisticolidae

    I wonder that even 60 years after its description the validity of Cisticola restrictus is still not confirmed satisfying.
  22. Melanie

    Your most anticipated futures books

    How Birds Fly The Science & Art of Avian Flight By: Peter Cavanagh https://www.nhbs.com/how-birds-fly-the-science-art-of-avian-flight-book
  23. Melanie

    Melanodera xanthogramma barrosi Chapman, 1923

    The new Andean Storm-petrel Oceanites barrosi is also named after him. He was also an entomologist.
  24. Melanie

    Procellariiformes

    Briefly mentioned as undescribed "Pale-bellied Fuegian storm-petrel" in Harrison, Perrow & Larsson (2021).
  25. Melanie

    Your most anticipated futures books

    Scheduled for September 2024 North American Mammals (in 2 volumes) by Sergio Ticul Álvarez-Castañeda https://www.nhbs.com/north-american-mammals-volume-1-book https://www.nhbs.com/north-american-mammals-volume-2-book
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