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Collaborative List 2017 – February

10,000 Birds

The line passing down through the Atlantic separates Iceland from Greenland and passes to the west of the Atlantic islands within the 25W line of longitude, employing a tiny kink to include the Azores and a scoop to pick up the Cape Verde Islands. Puerto Rican Woodpecker – Melanerpes portoricensis. Bosque Rio Negro.

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Birding Hluhluwe, South Africa

10,000 Birds

The Golden-tailed Woodpecker shares something with the German flag – it is called golden-tailed even though to me the color of its tail is yellow, not golden. No doubt the woodpecker has similar considerations. Other people – ornithologists, perhaps – ask whether Cape Verde kites exist ( probably not ).