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  1. Jacana

    Wader South Sweden 3rd May

    Wood Sandpiper
  2. Jacana

    Usutu virus, a threat to Blackbirds?

    Even closely related species living in the same habitats can have vastly different responses and susceptibility to a disease. It doesn't surprise me at all that there is a variation here with Usutu.
  3. Jacana

    How's Your 2025 List Going?

    One more yesterday: 188. Eurasian Treecreeper
  4. Jacana

    How's Your 2025 List Going?

    A few nice ones today around mid-Shropshire: 181. Willow Warbler 182. Garden Warbler 183. European Pied Flycatcher 184. Little Ringed Plover 185. Eurasian Oystercatcher 186. Common Reed Warbler 187. Sedge Warbler
  5. Jacana

    How's Your 2025 List Going?

    I'm back in Shropshire for a week and I had one new one today in the garden: 180. Common Whitethroat
  6. Jacana

    Motacilla flava in Spain

    I'd go thunbergi over  feldegg. While dark, the head is still grey instead of black and there's the hint of a white moustache. There has been a bit of a  thunbergi influx in recent days- at least two over here in Asturias that I know of.
  7. Jacana

    Phylogeny of birds

    The above pre-print has now found a home in PNAS: E.J. McTavish, J.A. Gerbracht, M.T. Holder, M.J. Iliff, D. Lepage, P.C. Rasmussen, B.D. Redelings, L.L. Sánchez Reyes, & E.T. Miller, A complete and dynamic tree of birds, Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 122 (18) e2409658122...
  8. Jacana

    What bird of prey? SW Spain

    Black-winged Kite
  9. Jacana

    How's Your 2025 List Going?

    Just one more new one today out of various targets: 179. Tree Pipit
  10. Jacana

    Norfolk Shark eats Seal (its in the Sun)

    How long ago? A decade or so ago they were (I saw several in 2012). But there has been a very well publicised decline in them there because of the Orcas. They've almost entirely disappeared there now.
  11. Jacana

    How's Your 2025 List Going?

    Three new ones today in Gijón: 176. Great Black-backed Gull 177. Common Ringed Plover 178. Sanderling
  12. Jacana

    Forest robin

    The main confusion zone for species limits will be around the Gulf of Guinea, particularly Cameroon/Gabon. Far-flung parts of its range, like Uganda will be easier to follow if there are any future tweaks.
  13. Jacana

    Coturnix quails

    Ravagni, S., Montero-Mendieta, S., Leonard, J.A., Webster, M.T., Christmas, M.J., Bunikis, I., Rodríguez-Teijeiro, J.D., Sanchez-Donoso, I. and Vilà, C. (2025), Large Inversions Shape Diversification and Genome Evolution in Common Quails. Mol Ecol, 34: e17740. https://doi.org/10.1111/mec.17740...
  14. Jacana

    Accipitridae

    Yes, I was forgetting Red Grouse. I think this is probably the best current example that is backed up with genomic data.
  15. Jacana

    How's Your 2025 List Going?

    Miserable weather this weekend. But I did manage to squeeze out one new one yesterday: 175. Western Yellow Wagtail
  16. Jacana

    Accipitridae

    Dozens probably. Most waiting confirmation via genetic data. Off the top of my head and without any prior research, I bet species such as Scottish Crossbill, MacKay's Bunting, Socotra Buzzard, Cape Verde Buzzard would be in a similar situation.
  17. Jacana

    Is this a non UK redstart?

    What a blast from the past! One of my favourite BF threads.
  18. Jacana

    Pachycephalidae

    This has now been published formally: Ethan F Gyllenhaal, Serina S Brady, Lucas H DeCicco, Alivereti Naikatini, Paul M Hime, Joseph D Manthey, John Kelly, Robert G Moyle, Michael J Andersen, Waves of Colonization and Gene Flow in a Great Speciator, Systematic Biology, 2025;, syaf023...
  19. Jacana

    American Ornithologists Union

  20. Jacana

    Laridae

    Out if interest, what is the naming history on this. Why was "Fairy" attached to Sternula nereis and Gygis adopting "White"?
  21. Jacana

    How's Your 2025 List Going?

    174. Green Sandpiper Last one in Portugal?
  22. Jacana

    Your Most Recent "Life" Bird

    2164. Bonelli's Eagle Probably my last possible one in this area of Portugal- unless an early Red-necked Nightjar makes an appearance...
  23. Jacana

    How's Your 2025 List Going?

    A couple more today while working around Montemor, including another lifer! 172. Eurasian Goshawk 173. Bonelli's Eagle
  24. Jacana

    Castro Verde- Portugal 05/04/2025

    For the last week, a colleague and I have been in the Montemor-o-Novo area of Portugal for work. The weather had been pretty damp and cool, but Saturday the 5th looked a bit better and so we decided to take the opportunity to drive a couple of hours south to the steppes around the town of...
  25. Jacana

    Your Most Recent "Life" Bird

    3 lifers today in Southern Portugal: 2161. Calandra Lark 2162. Black-bellied Sandgrouse 2163. Spanish Imperial Eagle
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