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Sunday, 4 December 2011

Speciation

Bit of a cop out this week, just forwarding you on to someone else's blog!

Some interesting thoughts on speciation by Ted Floyd can be found here:

http://blog.aba.org/2011/12/darwin-schoenberg-and-sibley-a-new-dawn-for-birding.html

A thoroughly good read!

Pygmy & Brown-headed Nuthatches (Tom Munson & Terence Brashear)

Bird Lists

World Life List: 917.

Last 20: Red-breasted Goose, Marsh Warbler, Eurasian Dotterel, Thrush Nightingale, Collared Flycatcher, Eurasian Pygmy Owl, Eurasian Three-toed Woodpecker, Great Grey Owl, Western Capercaillie, Spotted Nutcracker, Northern Hawk-Owl, Siberian Jay, Siberian Tit, Parrot Crossbill, Grey-headed Woodpecker, Pine Grosbeak, Black Woodpecker, European Crested Tit, Short-toed Treecreeper, Dark-eyed Junco.

UK Life List: 306.

Last 20: Little Swift, Dark-eyed Junco, Spanish Sparrow, Common Yellowthroat, Iceland Gull, Rough-legged Buzzard, Arctic Redpoll, Mealy Redpoll, Lesser White-fronted Goose, Bufflehead, Pallas's Warbler, Glossy Ibis, Semipalmated Sandpiper, Lesser Yellowlegs, Solitary Sandpiper, Long-billed Dowitcher, Sabine's Gull, Roseate Tern, Bonaparte's Gull, American Golden Plover.