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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Larry Sweetland" data-source="post: 3236808" data-attributes="member: 27337">I think Jurek's new forms can be further split: Birds like Long-billed (Maghreb) Crested Lark are interesting (honestly), because they are mapbird halfticks that you may have seen before or after the split. If seen since the split (or since you're aware of a potential split), you are more likely to actually properly look at them and remember the experience, but....... Armchair mapbird halfticks can be further split into Mind'seye armchair mapbird halfticks, and Notebookonly mapbird armchair halfticks. Unfortunately for me, I had no idea that Crested Lark was likely to be split in this fashion, and with it being a species you tend to see in many places, you'd think there'd be a good chance of not even remembering whether you'd seen them or not after the split. This could well have meant I would have had to go through my note book and hope I'd written down 'Crested Lark' for a site in the 'right place' in Morocco, and hope that would trigger off some kind of dodgy memory of actually seeing them, to give me a dodgy Notebook armchair mapbird halftick. FORTUNATELY, in Morocco, you also get Thekla Lark, so I have a vivid memory of actually looking at Galeridas from an ID interest point of view in 'the right place', so I've ended up with a much less concience-bothering Mind'seye armchair mapbird halftick :t:. In that case at least!..... The really dangerous ones to forget are when there's no 'reason' to look at the bird that ends up getting split, and you can't even remember seeing hundreds of them. Now, if you actually followed all that you probably should get out more :king:.</blockquote>

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