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Definitely NOT beep-beep

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It is definitely not a “Road Runner” And it is definitely, certainly, absolutely not a Lesser Roadrunner , the roadrunner of choice for tropical Mexico and northern Central America. This arae is prime Lesser Roadrunner territory — in fact, of my eleven sightings of the species, ten have been there.

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Definitively the Egyptians!

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But, from the existing data, the authors have drawn a different conclusion – there is no proof that the breeding population ever existed, that the south of Africa was beyond the species range and that that all observations were of vagrant individuals. During my lifetime, this species was rare in my native Serbia, too.

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Welcome to Invasive Species Week!

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Here at 10,000 Birds we are going to dedicate the coming week, from today until Saturday, to invasive species. Of course, most of the species we will cover will fit the more traditional definition of invasive species, which usually only covers introduced species that are doing harm to species in the areas to which they are introduced.

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Which Bird Species Have Gone Extinct in Costa Rica?

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Instead of going on about zip lines and other modern, adventure tourism attractions, the birding crowd talks about taking photos of Resplendent Quetzals , seeing dozens of hummingbird species, and the seemingly odd absence of raptors in Costa Rica but nope, we don’t really talk about extinction. Resplendence.

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The Things We Do For Birds

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Western” refers to a two-species complex, the Cordilleran Flycatcher and the Pacific-slope Flycatcher. But we – and by we I mean the crowd of birders that had swelled quite a bit from the lonely three birders looking early in the morning – still had the issue of not knowing what species we were actually looking at!

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Gulls of Europe, North Africa, and the Middle East: An Identification Guide

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On the other hand, I do not feel confident in my knowledge of gulls to give a definite answer. That is why I am so pleased to see the new “Gulls of Europe, North Africa, and the Middle East: An Identification Guide” being illustrated with nearly 1400 colour photographs of the 45 species of gulls found in the Western Palearctic.

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Sniping: The Final Frontier?

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Out of the approximately 26 species of snipes worldwide, two have been recorded on Trinidad. The trouble begins with the recognition of the fact that both species of snipe were formerly part of a single species – Common Snipe ( Gallinago gallinago ). Such was the unlikeliness of a definitive ID. in Nairobi.

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