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We Got the Wrong Starling

10,000 Birds

While in India last week for the 3rd annual Global Bird-watching Conference in the state of Gujarat, I had the opportunity to let my mind wonder “what if”? The default starling of urban areas in this corner of India are these remarkable rosys. Rosy Starlings winter in this part of India in huge numbers.

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White’s Thrush or Scaly?

10,000 Birds

White’s Thrush contains two subspecies, aurea and toratugumi; and Scaly Thrush includes the subspecies dauma, major, and horsfieldi, each of which also is recogized as a monotypic group. White’s Thrush Zoothera aurea [ map ] [ my records ]. Nilgiri Thrush and Sri Lanka Thrush are monotypic. Reference: Rasmussen, P.C., Birds of South Asia.

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