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Message: <blockquote data-quote="gusasp" data-source="post: 2397098" data-attributes="member: 69659"><p>Forgive a European, but I feel there's way too much americism going on here. The comparison with the bluebirds, kingbirds and wood-pewees halter. They're all restricted to the Americas, the nuthatches are definitely not. "Eastern" is therefore just dead wrong. If "Eastern" ever occurs as a modifier to a cosmopolitan bird group (and not part of a dichotomy), it refers to the Orient (Eastern Curlew, for instance).</p></blockquote><p></p>