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    Undescribed bird in Madagascar?

    I am not certain Frank Hawkins has seen it but he is listed as the sole author of a CI survey report which appears to be the source of one one of the few recent records regarded as reliable. It is from Zahamena NP, a locality not really visited by non-resident birders. I spent two months...
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    Undescribed bird in Madagascar?

    Best ref. is Birds of Africa (which I'm afraid I don't have). The 2015 FG by Frank Hawkins (who I believe has actually seen one) describes and illustrates the short tail, also lists narrower yellow throat and eye ring and darker breast band (discernible in photos on this thread). Gives...
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    Undescribed bird in Madagascar?

    The classification of Yellowbrow as a sister taxon is based on a PhD thesis (N L Block 2012, Cryptic Diversity and Phylogeography in the Bernieridae, an Endemic Malagasy Passerine Radiation, University of Chicago) which is I believe unpublished (I have not searched for a precis on-line). I am...
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    Shawell Tip

    Hello Neil, Thanks for the info re the footpath. I have not been to Shawell this season yet as I've been too busy but I am planning to 'do a bit' in the new year. As John says we have had a couple of adult Caspian Gulls at Draycote, one larger and longer billed than the other so presumably a...
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