Bougainville Bush-warbler Polioptila clementsi NEAR THREATENED Cettia haddeni is endemic to the island of Bougainville, Paupa New Guinea. It has only recently been described, although its existence has long been known to local inhabitants. Since 1972, ornithologists have been aware of its presence, but only through voice. Years of civil war prevented fieldwork in the […]
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Togian Hawk owl discovered in 2004
Togian Hawk-owl Ninox burhani NEAR THREATENED On Christmas night (25 December) 1999, in the village of Benteng on Togian Island, three unidentified hawk-owls were watched by torchlight, hunting from perches in a garden. They were medium-sized true owls, lacking ear tufts, with a dark, pale-scalloped mantle, darkish facial disc, grey bill, white underwings and undertail […]
Little Sumba Hawk owl discovered in 2002
Little Sumba Hawk-owl Ninox sumbaensis NEAR THREATENED Since the late 1980s, an unknown owl of the Genus Otus has been reported on the island of Sumba in Indonesia. Through DNA testing, this Owl has now been identified as a Ninox owl, but different to Ninox novaeseelandiae (Southern Boobook Owl), Ninox scutulata (Brown Hawk Owl) and […]
Bald Parrot discovered in 2002
Bald Parrot Gypopsitta aurantiocephala NEAR THREATENED Pionopsitta aurantiocephala is known only from a few localities encompassing the Lower Madeira and Upper Tapajós rivers in Amazonian Brazil. Individuals have been seen in gallery forest and in ‘campinarana’ forest (on white-sand soils). This region is under threat from logging1. Given that the species is currently known only […]
Mekong Wagtail discovered in 2001
Mekong Wagtail Motacilla samveasnae NEAR THREATENED Motacilla samveasnae is known, in the breeding season, from a substantial length of the River Mekong and several of its tributaries in Cambodia, extending upstream from Kampi into southern Laos, and there is a record from the non-breeding season in Thailand. In optimal habitat, linear densities may reach many […]
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 […]