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Phillipps’ Field Guide to the Birds of Borneo: A Book Review

10,000 Birds

Not a great place for a family vacation, though I think Duncan will disagree. Nothing wets the appetite for a birding trip like a map with a Blue-banded Pitta posed in the middle and a Rhinoceros Hornbill flying across the edge! Species Accounts are grouped by family, following what appears to be Sibley and Monroe’s 1996 taxonomy. (I

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Duncan’s 2014 List

10,000 Birds

For the moment I’ll stick with the split babbler families although I may relump the laughingthrushes, ground and tree babblers per Molye et al (2012). Species are listed by family according to the order eBird spits them out to me in. Rhinoceros Hornbill ( Buceros rhinoceros ); Danum Valley, Borneo, 1 January.

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Collaborative list – August 2018

10,000 Birds

Can the whole family live together in harmony during the school holidays? Aplomado Falcon – Falco femoralis. Rhinoceros Hornbill – Buceros rhinoceros. Red-footed Falcon – Falco vespertinus. New Zealand Falcon – Falco novaeseelandiae. Prairie Falcon – Falco mexicanus.

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