Comments on: Indian large-billed reed warbler, lost for 139 years, found again in Thailand and Britain http://dearkitty.blogsome.com/2007/03/07/indian-large-billed-reed-warbler-lost-for-139-years-found-again-in-thailand-and-britain/ My diary on peace and wars, arts, sciences, politics, the fight for economic and social justice, the environment, and more. Sun, 06 Dec 2009 01:24:58 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=1.5.1-alpha by: Administrator http://dearkitty.blogsome.com/2007/03/07/indian-large-billed-reed-warbler-lost-for-139-years-found-again-in-thailand-and-britain/#comment-6643 Wed, 08 Apr 2009 13:46:31 +0100 http://dearkitty.blogsome.com/2007/03/07/indian-large-billed-reed-warbler-lost-for-139-years-found-again-in-thailand-and-britain/#comment-6643 Large-billed Reed-warbler (not so) new to Afghanistan and Kazakhstan - According to a recent paper in the Journal of Avian Biology by Svensson et al. Large-billed Reed-warbler Acrocephalus orinus can be added to the bird lists of Afghanistan and Kazakhstan, after finding 10 new specimens in museum collections. The Kazakhstan specimen was collected by N. Zarudny on 18 August 1900 in the south-east of the country. The four Afghan specimens were collected by W. N. Koelz in north-east Afghanistan in July 1937. Until recently Large-billed Reed-warbler was known only from one specimen, collected in the Sutlej Valley, Himachal Pradesh, India in November 1867. In March 2006 one was trapped at Laem Phak Bia, Phatchaburi Province, south-west Thailand. http://www.birdlife.org/news/news/2009/04/news_byte_7.html Large-billed Reed-warbler (not so) new to Afghanistan and Kazakhstan - According to a recent paper in the Journal of Avian Biology by Svensson et al. Large-billed Reed-warbler Acrocephalus orinus can be added to the bird lists of Afghanistan and Kazakhstan, after finding 10 new specimens in museum collections. The Kazakhstan specimen was collected by N. Zarudny on 18 August 1900 in the south-east of the country. The four Afghan specimens were collected by W. N. Koelz in north-east Afghanistan in July 1937. Until recently Large-billed Reed-warbler was known only from one specimen, collected in the Sutlej Valley, Himachal Pradesh, India in November 1867. In March 2006 one was trapped at Laem Phak Bia, Phatchaburi Province, south-west Thailand.

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