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    The 10% Club - Milestones

    I was about to like your post until I came to this last line :LOL:
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    The 10% Club - Milestones

    This was on my list from Hacienda Amazonia, but from 2004, when only the Clements & Shany guide was available, so my ID did not rest on very solid ground. It had been nagging at my conscience for a while, this was the last straw and I have now removed it from my list. The dept. of Putumayo in...
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    Name a Bird You've Seen 2

    Can I still play off it though? Because I see some emerald gloss in its plumage, which takes me to #9693 Emerald-chinned Hummingbird: ML532197841 - Emerald-chinned Hummingbird - Macaulay Library
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    Forest-falcon, Minca, Colombia

    OK, thanks, and let me walk back my ID as I was unaware that some juv Barred Forest-Falcons can look quite a bit like this one! It's probably best to wait for someone more knowlegable than me to wheigh in.
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    Forest-falcon, Minca, Colombia

    Collared Forest-Falcon. I wonder what the other proposed ID was, there aren't any other similar Forest-Falcons in the area.
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    Sporophila

    I get the sense though that they (or at least quite a few members) have seen genetics as one of many data points and not the end-all and be-all. So in the presence of other evidence of reproductive isolation (narrow hybrid zone) the lack of genetic differentiation is not necessarily a problem.
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    Your silliest/most entertaining/unlikely birding accomplishments

    Here's one that's quite unlikely: a friend of mine has seen exactly two Western Sandpipers his entire life, yet has that species in four different countries. We watched one together in Jan 2017 on a sandbank in the Putumayo river that marks the boundary between Colombia and Peru (AFAIK, the...
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    Phylloscopidae

    It doesn't look like it has any new information, just a review of prior publications, but I agree that if Iberian Chiffchaff is considered a separate species, then so should Siberian.
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    Extremely poor picture, but is this a female magnolia warbler by any chance? South FL march 24

    Not a great photo as you say, but just based on that huge eyering alone I would go with Blue-headed Vireo
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    Colombia's Rare birds - as they become accessible

    This would be Paramo Bordoncillo I imagine? Probably the best site anywhere for Chestnut-bellied Cotinga but it can be plagued by fog so it is by no means guaranteed there. One of the better sites for Masked Mountain-Tanager as well
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    Do you count heard only birds on your life list?

    Lawrence's Thrush is one of the most skilled mimics of all. But even then, within one bout of singing it will switch from one species to the next numerous times, so with a little bit of listening it's easy to figure out you are hearing the thrush and not 15-20 different species singing in rapid...
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    Two people break 10,000 species, and on the same day? Can it be?

    Just the fact of being on a trail causes quite a bit of disturbance, you'll be flushing plenty of birds you never knew were there, and many others will alter their activities, so pretending that birding can be done with zero disturbance to birds is a pipe dream. If we accept the fact that the...
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    Two people break 10,000 species, and on the same day? Can it be?

    In certain situations, though, isn't it also the least disruptive option? Is it really more of a disturbance to the bird that crashing through vegetation to track down a singing bird? Of course, in heavily birded places or for staked-out individuals the equation changes, but in many birding...
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    Petition to AOS Leadership on the Recent Decision to Change all Eponymous Bird Names

    I signed the petition but frankly I think this development with the Utah state legislature getting involved is terrible news. It seems very disingenous of the Utah rep who sponsored it to say it's not about politics, it seems pretty clear to me that this is being used as a culture wars wedge...
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    Poll - Do you agree or disagree with the AOS's recent decision to abandon the use of eponymous bird names?

    As I said on this thread before I very much dislike the AOS decision, but this is beyond moronic. Having state legislatures intervene and turning into a culture war issue is the last thing this discussion needs. It's a matter for the birding/ornithological community to decide, and I suspect many...
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    eBird and Birding on the move

    But in order for that to truly work, though, you'd have to enter every single individual bird the moment you see it/hear it. And not just every "good" or "interesting" bird, but every last Blackcap, American Robin, or Tropical Kingbird. And I think only a tiny, tiny percentage of birders would...
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    Your silliest/most entertaining/unlikely birding accomplishments

    It's now a time-honored tradition on Linosa that we find some of the very best birds when we've given up on birding and are heading out for a swim. Top birds found this way include Blyth's and American Pipits (both firsts for Italy), and Desert Whetear on the very rocks we were planning to dive...
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    Taxonomy in-flux updates

    I think Huayco Tinamou references the bird's vocalizations, though as far as I can tell it's the only tinamou name that's based on voice.
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    Taxonomy in-flux updates

    I thought the same, not to mention the fact that there already are Brown and Gray Tinamous, and that they both occur widely in the Andean foothills, if not at high elevations. Northern and Southern would be better I guess, although they might wrongly imply a sister relationship to people who...
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    Antpitta

    Speaking of undescribed antpittas from Colombia, I have seen mentions of the 'Paisa' or 'Santa Rosa' Antpitta on FB posts by a number of people over the last few months. Part of the Tawny Antpitta complex, it occurs only in Antioquia (near the site for Antioquia Brush-Finch). There are photos in...
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    Antpitta

    sorry about that, I must have missed it!
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    Antpitta

    Undulated Antpitta was first recorded in Santa Marta about ten years ago (https://sao.org.co/publicaciones/boletinsao/24_1n2/BS2016-03.pdf) so the wording of that press release is a little odd/disingenuous, as it does not mention this record (and other subsequent ones) and implies this was a...
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    (Not only) Thamnophilidae

    Yes, you are right, I misread the abstract. I guess one would need access to the full paper to be sure whether the clinal variation in voice they refer to applies to the Scaled Antbird as a whole or just to the taxon south of the Rio Sao Francisco, though I understood it as the former.
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    (Not only) Thamnophilidae

    I would love a pdf of the paper if anyone has access, antbirds are awesome and Drymophila are some of the awesomest antbirds. If I understand the abstract correctly, the birds in Bahia, the only place where I have seen Scaled Antbird, are the new taxon. However if, as the abstract says, vocal...
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    General taxonomy megathread

    There's a really cool recent video presentation by Per Alstrom where he discusses, among many other things, the yellow wagtail situation: (yellow wagtails starting at 48:40) The classifications based on mtDNA (at 50:08) don't seem to make much sense though, as they include Eastern Yellow...
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