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Birds of the Indonesian Archipelago: Greater Sundas and Wallacea–A Field Guide Review

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Working in an area for which there are few official checklists, no governing taxonomic body, and much new information on species relationships coming in, the authors were faced with a multitude of questions about family sequence, genus arrangements, English common names, and species taxonomy. Co-author Frank E. Species Accounts.

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Queensland’s First Nordmann’s Greenshank

10,000 Birds

Down here in Australia one can be a birder for a long time without experiencing a proper twitch. This was the first record for my home state of Queensland, indeed a first record for anywhere in Australia away from the north west area of Western Australia. Nordmann’s Greenshank on the Cairns Esplanade [Adrian Walsh].

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Our Best Birds of 2020

10,000 Birds

Later in the year we were able to travel around the north of Western Australia. Our 2020 year list stands at 324 for Victoria and the north of Western Australia combined, so we are more than happy with that under current circumstances. We then returned home to Broome and waited for restrictions on local travel to lift.

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