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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Andy Adcock" data-source="post: 3535011" data-attributes="member: 31710">I have NEVER made disparaging remarks about James....point me to them!Are ANY authors qualified to make taxonomic judgements if they aren't trained geneticists? No matter how good a field birder you are, without a scientific background you are not a scientist and if physical attributes such as the ones you point out are all it takes to split a species then we can all do that.I'll bow out of this as you seem intent on creating a situation that doesn't exist, you're trying to provoke me in to slagging someone off so don't expect another reply or I run the risk of a ban.</blockquote>