Yellow-browed Warbler

[Colin Key]

Yellow-browed Warbler trapped and ringed at Cruzinha (A Rocha) this morning - now just waiting for it to turn up in my garden (please!).

Colin

[MichaelF]

Lots in Britain the last few days as well - birdguides logged 150 in the last week. Even got one myself :ohdear:

[butor2003]

You could send some here! Nothing exciting in GE at the moment, just a Lapland Longspur a long way away....

Mike

[Colin Key]

just a Lapland Longspur ......
Mike

Please Mike, give it the honour of being a "Lapland Bunting" rather than this stupid new "monika"!! :ohdear:

Colin :smile:

[MichaelF]

Hi Colin,

Like it or loathe it, it isn't stupid - the species has recently been expelled from the bunting family, it's DNA didn't fit. Calcarius and Plectrophenax are now in the new family Calcariidae :err:
http://www.worldbirdnames.org/n-buntings.html

http://www.nrm.se/download/18.61d98c3a11a91af311a80001022/Alstr%C3%B6m+et+al+Emberizini+MPEV+2008.pdf

[Colin Key]

Hi Colin,

Like it or loathe it, it isn't stupid - the species has recently been expelled from the bunting family, it's DNA didn't fit. Calcarius and Plectrophenax are now in the new family Calcariidae :err:

Do birders in the field actually use the name "Longspur" Micheal? Very long time since I have seen one - I think my last was at Elmley in Kent. It will always be Lapland Bunting to me, as will Snow Bunting, irrespective of DNA (Daft New Acronym):laugh:

Zitting Cisticola does not exist (in my little world) either, and I am also reverting back to Black-winged Kite:biggrin:.

Colin