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Purple Swamphen: Supertramp or superspecies?

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the eBird/Clements checklist puts them in a group as of version 6.9), but as far as I can tell, the new study didn’t sample viridis specifically. The Gray-headed Swamphen ranges from Turkey through India to northern Thailand. subspecies and subspecies groups may represent species-level lineages.”

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Confusing Collared Kingfishers

10,000 Birds

The world of birding is filled with challenging groups well known to all, birds like gulls , Empidonax flycatchers or cisticolas that require attention to the tiniest details in order to assign an individual to a specific species (if it can be done at all). Subspecies humii , Thailand. Subspecies albicilla , Saipan, Micronesia.

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