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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Richard Klim" data-source="post: 1845615" data-attributes="member: 773">African & Mangrove Reed Warblers in WPI spoke too soon...<ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Hering, Brehme, Fuchs & Winkler 2010. African Reed Warblers and Mangrove Reed Warblers in Libya & Egypt – both new to the Western Palearctic. Birding World 23(5): 218-219.</li> </ul>Also of interest:<ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Baha El Din, Baha El Din & Bensch 2010. Mangrove Olivaceous Warblers in Egypt – new to the Western Palearctic. Birding World 23(5): 215-217. [Suggests that Hippolais/Iduna pallida alulensis Ash et al 2005 could qualify as a distinct species under BSC, if found breeding in sympatry with any other form of H pallida, or if proved to be ecologically differentiated as a true mangrove-adapted dweller.]</li> </ul>Richard</blockquote>