Abyssinian Scimitarbill (1 Viewer)

delia todd

If I said the wrong thing it was a Senior Moment

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• Jun 2, 2009

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Discussion thread for Abyssinian Scimitarbill.

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Clements: Abyssinian Scimitar-bill
S&M: Abyssinian Scimitar-bill
H&M: Abyssinian Scimitarbill
IOC: Abyssinian Scimitarbill

Tie-breaker??

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wintibird

André Weiss

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• Jun 3, 2009

• #2

IOC would be the tie-breaker if the other three don't agree. As a majority of the first three agree with Scimitar-bill the whole family should be changed (as the taxonomy templates already are).

André

 

delia todd

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• Jun 3, 2009

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Thanks André, not quite got the hang of all this yet! I've re-named all three Scimitar-bills now

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JWN Andrewes

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• Jun 3, 2009

• #4

And that's a photo of a Green Woodhoopoe, not an Abyssinian Scimitarbill (we've been here before - see http://www.birdforum.net/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=109897 )

James

 

delia todd

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• Jun 3, 2009

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JWN Andrewes said:

And that's a photo of a Green Woodhoopoe, not an Abyssinian Scimitarbill (we've been here before - see http://www.birdforum.net/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=109897 )

James

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Thanks James - I've deleted the picture from Opus now

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Rasmus Boegh

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• Jun 4, 2009

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Actually, it's not a Green Woodhoopoe on that photo (contrary to my original comment under it, too), but it's not an Abyssinian Scimitarbill either! It's a Black-billed Woodhoopoe. As Nigel Redman (one of the authors of the new Birds of the Horn of Africa) recently pointed out when he was presented with this exact photo, Black-billed Woodhoopoe of the northern race P. s. abyssinicus sometimes are red-billed. I have corrected the name + added a brief note on it.