Interesting - IOC calls *Pica pica* Eurasian Magpie and *P.
hudsonia*Black-billed - Bird Life does not seen to recognise the split
although it
does mention it as a synonym - and the map does not show the US range!
On 10 April 2012 11:39, Bird-O Admin <> wrote:
> Is this not it?
> http://www.birdlife.org/datazone/speciesfactsheet.php?id=5745
>
> Simon.
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> On 10 April 2012 11:35, Mike Carter <> wrote:
>
> > Simon Mustoe raised the possibility that this bird might be a
> Black-billed
> > Magpie. No chance! With ships arriving at Port Hedland daily from Asia it
> > would be that taxon rather than its relative from North America. The
> > differences are slight the most obvious being a grey band across the
> lower
> > back/rump but that area of the plumage is not visible in the adequate but
> > rather ordinary photo. Parsimony states such criteria unnecessary.
> > This is one of a few strange occurrences I've heard of recently.
> Currently
> > there is a rather pallid looking 'Barbary Dove' on Lord Howe island
> thought
> > possibly a natural arrival from the feral NZ population. Another is an
> old
> > observation from a person (nascent birder) who produced photos of a duck
> we
> > identify as a Lesser Whistling Duck taken in Malaysia which, he claims,
> is
> > the same species as a bird he saw at the sewage works on Christmas
> Island.
> > You may remember that a putrid unidentified duck was pulled from a tank
> > there last year.
> >
> > Mike Carter
> > 30 Canadian Bay Road
> > Mount Eliza VIC 3930
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> >
> >
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