Scarlet-banded Barbet Capito wallacei VULNERABLE Capito wallacei is known only from an isolated, unnamed ridge system to the east of the Cordillera Azul, Ucayali Department, Peru. The ridge is on the east bank of the upper RÃo Cushabatay, 77 km west-north-west of Contamana in Loreto. The ridge is long (>50 km) and narrow and, in […]
Category: 2000
Foothill Elaenia discovered in 2000
Foothill Elaenia Myiopagis olallai NEAR THREATENED Myiopagis olallai is known from four areas along the eastern slopes of the Andes: three sites on the slopes of Volcán Sumaco, Napo; near Zamora; at 1200 m above Bermejo in SucumbÃos province, Ecuador, and in ApurÃmac in southern Peru. It occurs between 890 and 1,500 m within and […]
Caatinga Antwren discovered in 2000
Caatinga Antwren Herpsilochmus sellowi NEAR THREATENED Herpsilochmus pileatus is locally uncommon in caatinga scrub and deciduous woodland in interior north-east Brazil up to 1,000 m. It has been recorded from Barra do Corda in central Maranhão, Serra do Cachimbo in south Pará, Chapada de Araripe and Várzea Formosa in Ceará, and several localities in central […]
Taiwan Bush warbler discovered in 2000
Taiwan Bush-warbler Bradypterus alishanensis LEAST CONCERN A bush-warbler of the genus Bradypterus, known from the mountains of Taiwan since 1917, has never been formally named as a distinct taxon. Songs of the Taiwan population differ strikingly from those of its Asian congeners in being much clearer, sweeter, more piercing, and in having a very different […]