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    Birding in Peninsular Malaysia

    Personally, with 4 days I'd go to Fraser's Hill, or at a push combine it with a day at Bukit Tinggi. Wilbur is awesome!
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    Ghost orchid appeal

    That's some pretty serious allegations, I know nothing about Ghost Orchids, the observer or the site he found it but looking at the weather for the Welsh borders it doesn't look like there's been anything crazy, just 5 or 6 days since the start of July with temperatures over 25 degrees & never...
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    Books on puffins

    This ones a really good introduction to Puffins https://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/rspb-spotlight-puffins-9781472965202/
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    Sabah: Mt Kinabalu (Feb 2024)

    Yep, that's all off limits now unless you're accompanied by a guide - I was looking at going a few years ago & got in touch with one of the companies that takes people to the summit & asked if I could just accompany them up to Laban Rata then get picked up on their way back down but I never...
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    Name a Bird You've Photographed

    The other NZ gerygone 4150. Chatham Island Warbler, (Gerygone albofrontata), Tuku Nature Reserve 1st January 2020
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    Name a Bird You've Photographed

    Using Chat - 4083. Chatham Island Snipe, Mangere April 2015 Picture came out almost bigger than life size!
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    Sabah: Mt Kinabalu (Feb 2024)

    Some friends of mine were there recently & asked 3 times if they could go beyond the Timpohon Gate & were told three times they could, so they went up one morning, nobody was at the gatehouse so they went through, got 2km before they got challenged, were told to stay where they were while the...
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    Name a Bird You've Seen 2

    9715. Christmas Island Thrush
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    Best european seawatching spots for (seawatching) beginner

    Seawatching from Cape Clear is amazing - the birds are so close you can just use binocluars a lot of the time - don't need to worry about trying to identify distant specks - on a good day there's nowhere better & on a quiet day there'll still be shearwaters & stormies passing close enough to get...
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    Trochilidae

    Hmm, so nothing can be changed because of the need for stability, but when something is changed it can't be changed back because of the need for stability? ;)
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    Trochilidae

    I agree, its just hard to understand why the code seems to insist on so many unnecessary name changes but when some commonsense changes are suggested the code doesn't allow it & everybody demands stability? Does it really matter if a name ends in na or nus or num & yet correcting something that...
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    Trochilidae

    So it was necessary to change 1000's of names to align the gender of the genus & specific names but a few names can't be changed to correct very obvious mistakes because its against a made-up code & would destabilize avian taxonomy? I would humbly suggest anybody saying it doesn't matter & its...
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    strange flamingo majorca

    No convinced its poop - seems to be slightly off to the side & too far forward to be the cloaca plus if you zoom in it's been eating something really weird if that's poop
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    Your silliest/most entertaining/unlikely birding accomplishments

    Years ago I took Christy Moore out birding for the day - after finding out he had no head for heights & I probably shouldn't have taken him where I did, we sat down & watched Manxies passing for an hour or so & he sang me a song - The Yellow Bittern which is about a fella who got kicked out his...
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    Gonocephalus grandis?

    I think its a Robinson's Forest Dragon (Malayodracon robinsonii)
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    Petition to AOS Leadership on the Recent Decision to Change all Eponymous Bird Names

    I think the big problem is just trying to come up with a single, 'official' name, you can have 1000's of columns in excel so there's no real need for it. There's actually quite a few Maori names which are used internationally & are the 'official' English name - Kea, Kakapo, Kaka, Kiwi, Kokako...
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    Petition to AOS Leadership on the Recent Decision to Change all Eponymous Bird Names

    You'll just have to find some non-white people who were involved in the genocide of white people or the taking of their land, destruction of their culture & language, kept white people as slaves & never looked at a bird in their lives but somebody thought they should have a bird named after them! 😁
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    Petition to AOS Leadership on the Recent Decision to Change all Eponymous Bird Names

    Thanks Paul, yep another record breaking season - 38 chicks fledged, or almost fledged, last few should go this week Just to go back to your previous post briefly & try & explain the point I didn't really make - international birders don't seem to be bothered by 'official' OSNZ bird names in...
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    Petition to AOS Leadership on the Recent Decision to Change all Eponymous Bird Names

    Sorry Paul, I guess invested was the wrong word, I was going to say angry but decided not to
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    Petition to AOS Leadership on the Recent Decision to Change all Eponymous Bird Names

    But it's the AOS, I don't understand why non-Americans are getting so invested, just ignore it, it doesn't need to affect you
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    Fuegian Snipe: Chile, March 2025

    This is probably the bird I most want to see in the world, I'd love to join you but I'll be working - if circumstances change I'll be in touch for sure!
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    Help needed to find the right destination

    I've been several times in the last 10 years or so, I love it there! I always hire a car at the airport & drive thete, a car isn't essential once it's there but it's really handy for getting to the further away trails or popping down to the gap Steven's Place is basically a bed & breakfast...
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    New Zealand - North Island

    I think you've got a flock of Banded Dotterels and a single New Zealand Dotterel
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    Help needed to find the right destination

    Can't recommend Steven's Place enough at Frasers Hill in Malaysia, got everything you're looking for!
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    Name a Bird You've Seen 2

    An anagram of Chestnut-bellied Imperial Pigeon, if you use some letters more than once and don't use quite a few others at all 9528. Tristan Thrush I think I'm definitely out now
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