Hello, I have posted some pictures from my Birding in Cusco, Can you please helping with the id. I also posted some pictures in best photos. Thanks for your...
Hola Javier Regarding your pictures. The ones on Best shots are correct except the big Woodpecker. That is a Crimson-crested WOodpecker. Guyaquil is restricted...
Hola birders Avid seabirders that join the Humboldt current pelagic the first time, often call out Wilson's storm-petrel on the first storm-petrel they see on...
Had a look again, my screen was angled and I did not see it in fact have white dotted wing markings.. that do look too pale to be a Pewee. Agree it is probably...
Hola, I have just returned from a 2,5 month stay at the Los Amigos research station (CICRA) along the rio Madre de Dios. While waiting at the airport of Puerto...
J. Aben
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May 5, 2007 8:00 am
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Hi Job The White-tailed Kite is established in the Puerto Maldonado area since some years. It has been discussed on BirdingPeru before. Check this link: ...
Dear Javier Colmenares & Job Aben, Regarding the photos Javier posted... photo DSC_6627.JPG is an Elaenia, not a Contopus pewee. Not the proportionally small...
Dan Lebbin
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May 5, 2007 3:09 pm
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Dear all Some of you may remember my rantings about Whitestart verses Redstart and trying to persuade SACC (South American Checklist Committee) to adopt the...
Hi Roger Ahlman and Dan Lebbin, Thanks, I was not aware of this discussion. Job Aben ... From: roger ahlman <rahlman2002@...> Date: Saturday, May 5, 2007...
J. Aben
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May 7, 2007 7:39 am
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Dear friends of Birding Perú, (Español abajo) Due to the worldwide concern about avian influenza, Wetlands Internacional started their Project "Mapping...
Amigos, Hoy es el dia mundial de las aves. Celebremoslo bajando este excelente libro gracias al trabajo de Jeremy Flanagan: Best & Kessler sobre la Region...
Hey Gunnar, This was interesting reading about bird names as I wrote the world list of bird names (in Latin,English, and German) in 1992. However, the attitude...
Tino Mischler
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May 11, 2007 6:38 am
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It seems my first mail got lost in cyberspace; second try: Largely, I agree with Gunnar, though I'd suggest a female Capped Conebill (Conirostrum albifrons)...
Dear all Lately a lots of relevant messages on the two yahoo groups that I manage have been marked "possible spam" and delivered to me in a spam folder, but...
Hi Tino Much agree with your views... only change names that are confusing or dead wrong. And I also feel Speckle-breasted and Scaly-breasted sounds too much...
Folks Apart from the widespread media buzz about this penguin, the part that surprises me is that it has been noted to be the first record for Peru of this...
Hi, I just upload some pictures on the Picture ID http://www.birdingperu.com/picsfiles/photos.asp?idtipopic=1 and would like confirmation, correction or help...
Alejandro Congrats to you and Juan, that you finally got that F*$#"#$&-ing Cotinga, cause that is what your photos show. Also on your shots Shining Sunbeam -...
The raptors are dark juveniles of Puna hawk Buteo poecilochrous. Hummingbird with pale forehead: I think this is juv. blackbreasted hillstar Oreotrochilus...
Fjeldså, Jon
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May 13, 2007 1:39 pm
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After a closer look.... I agree with Jon on the Hummer Id. The comet would furthermore have a spot behind the eye. BTW. I have never seen Green-headed Hillstar...
Hi John, Thanks for your help with the ID of this birds. Much appreciated. Regards, Alejandro De:Birdingperu@yahoogroups.com Para:Birdingperu@yahoogroups.com ...
I agree with Jon in the Humminbird id, it's more likely to be a Blackect Hillstar. And the raptor also agree with jon and Gunnar that it's a first plumage of a...
Dear Kini Roesler Species rank of B.poecilochrous and polyosoma is discussed in this paper: Cabot, J. & de Vries, T. 2003. Buteo polyosoma and Buteo...
Fjeldså, Jon
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May 14, 2007 1:19 pm
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Dear Jon, Yes, indee is interesting the paper of Cabot and de Vries. Also there's a paper of Farquhar about the subjet. Anyway none of those papers are seens...
Dear Kini In my mind there is one way to provide a clear answer to the question: molecular data using several mitochondrial AND nuclear genes and proper...
Fjeldså, Jon
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May 14, 2007 3:39 pm
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Hi, Just uploaded two pictures (on PIcture ID - http://www.birding- peru.com/picsfiles/photos.asp?idtipopic=1) of a tinamou we saw this saturday while on Santa...
Que buen foto de Nothoprocta pentlandii - muy dificil a fotografiar! - John O'Neill ... From: atabini@... To: Birdingperu@yahoogroups.com Sent: Mon,...