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  1. sicklebill

    Hokkaido. Plover

    LRP I think, note yellow eye-ring, and maybe flesh coloured legs? Habitat might help too, Long-billed mostly on rivers.
  2. sicklebill

    Brown Goshawk vs. Collared Sparrowhawk, Tasmania

    I'd go for one of each, tail shape suggests this
  3. sicklebill

    Latest IOC Diary Updates

    Yes, this is very sad, New Guinea has indeed taken a clobbering by the look of it, I will not be going along with it as this is so open to question. It looks as if nuclear genome stuff rules and field observations, morphology and vocals are sidelined, though accepted for many Indonesian splits.
  4. sicklebill

    Latest IOC Diary Updates

    As feared, one list to rule them all means LOTS of lumps, sad to see the cormorants, catbirds, friarbirds, shrikethrushes etc merged again, surprised they haven't merged Island Thrush again......List Independence beckons unless IOC maintains an identity.
  5. sicklebill

    Hokkaido. At sea

    They are Spectacled Guillemot, note the big white patch around the eye and the dark plumage
  6. sicklebill

    Mongolia, August. Juvenile Cuckoo ?

    Either that or OrientalCuckoo, doubt they can be separated in this plumage
  7. sicklebill

    Latest IOC Diary Updates

    This last one was a cracker, all the Rufous Fantail, Island Thrush and Cicadabird splits to sort out and perfect timing for me as I near the end of the passerines revision for the second edition of the Lynx Field Guide to the Birds of New Guinea, the Bismarck Archipelago and Bougainville. A...
  8. sicklebill

    Bird of prey, Sydney, Australia

    Brown Goshawk for me too, and pretty large if you thought it a harrier
  9. sicklebill

    Waigeo ? Azure Dollarbird record 2019

    Seems borderline, but they also suggest the Solomons taxon may be distinct enough to be classified as a species
  10. sicklebill

    Waigeo ? Azure Dollarbird record 2019

    Excellent, thank you, that clears up the mystery and confirms what I suspected. I will have a look at that NG taxon and add comments accordingly in the FG.
  11. sicklebill

    Waigeo ? Azure Dollarbird record 2019

    The late David Fisher sent me a photo of an Azure Dollarbird seemingly photographed on Waigeo in West Papua in 2019 (?) It's a pretty rare Halmahera endemic so a surprising record and I'd like to verify it. Does anyone have any details or know someone I can contact? The second edition of the...
  12. sicklebill

    Latest IOC Diary Updates

    So distinct makes no sense.... +25 for me now, but -10 so 15 overall
  13. sicklebill

    Latest IOC Diary Updates

    Great that clears up my query about both chapini and kaballii initially shown in NW Zambia, and I get a tick!
  14. sicklebill

    Nomenclature burnout

    Thanks, I should do this, I was unaware of it
  15. sicklebill

    Nomenclature burnout

    Uhh, I lead about 10 tours a year so your smartass comment is not exactly helpful....
  16. sicklebill

    Nomenclature burnout

    I wrote 4 complete family accounts for BoW and I have to pay.....I've also never seen any discount codes, maybe only in North AmericaA?
  17. sicklebill

    Latest IOC Diary Updates

    Albifrons on Erromango seems to be placed with White-headed Island Thrush T. pritzbueri, the latter nominate extinct but albifrons is still extant with one recent record above 300m (Dutson Birds of Melanesia 2011)
  18. sicklebill

    Terns on Allahein River estuary, The Gambia

    You have both species here, mostly West African Crested and a handful of the much stouter billed red-billed with dark tips Caspian
  19. sicklebill

    Splendid Fairywren

    https://doi.org/10.1080/01584197.2024.2352400 The Splendid Fairywren Malurus splendens has four distinct phenotypic forms currently recognised as subspecies, although three species have been recognised within the group in the past. Here, we use multilocus nuclear DNA to test the recent...
  20. sicklebill

    Your Most Recent "Life" Bird

    Slaty-breasted Rail in Taiwan near Tainan May 9, only seen a UTV (Untickable view) in Thailand before
  21. sicklebill

    Latest IOC Diary Updates

    I think it's like with many Arabic names, with non-standardised versions of spelling, don't really care either way, we went through all this with Macgregor/MacGregor's Bowerbird and either seemed fine to me. I don't have a problem with Spot-breasted Cuckoo Dove.
  22. sicklebill

    Latest IOC Diary Updates

    Wetar and Timor are in Sunda, not Australasia
  23. sicklebill

    Phnom Penh, Cambodia - id help please

    Looks good and certainly worth adding
  24. sicklebill

    Phnom Penh, Cambodia - id help please

    Did you see the bird rather than just photographing it? If you did the grey would be very apparent assuming it's Cambodian Tailorbird, your images certainly look plausible.
  25. sicklebill

    Phnom Penh, Cambodia - id help please

    Common, Dark-necked and Cambodian are all in the Phnom Penh area, if it's grey above then must be Cambodian but but I can't tell the colour from the photo
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