Spectacled Flowerpecker NOT YET EVALUATED The Spectacled Flowerpecker is a new species of bird discovered in the forests of north-eastern Borneo in June 2009 and apparently belonging to the flowerpecker family Dicaeidae. It has not yet been formally described or given a scientific name because of limited information and lack of a specimen. The new […]
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Limestone Leaf Warbler discovered in 2009
Limestone Leaf Warbler Phylloscopus calciatilis NOT YET EVALUATED Beginning in 1994, ornithologists began to notice birds thought to be the Sulpher-breasted Warbler (P. ricketti) in breeding condition, singing, in what was their wintering range in Laos. Upon more detailed study, they realized these warblers represented a unique taxon. The plumage was nearly identical to P. […]
Bare faced Bulbul discovered in 2009
Bare-faced Bulbul Pycnonotus hualon NOT YET EVALUATED Based on distinctive morphological (plumage and skin) and vocal characters we describe a new species of bulbul from the limestone karst of central Lao PDR and place it in the genus Pycnonotus. The species is so far known from one locality in Savannakhet province and two probable earlier […]
RÃo Orinoco Spinetail discovered in 2009
RÃo Orinoco Spinetail Synallaxis beverlyae NOT YET EVALUATED We describe a new species of spinetail, Synallaxis beverlyae (RÃo Orinoco Spinetail), from river island scrub in the lower and middle sections of the main river channel of the RÃo Orinoco in Venezuela and adjacent Colombia. This taxon has been overlooked previously because river islands were not […]
Giles’ Pale bellied Tapaculo discovered in 2008
Giles’ Pale-bellied Tapaculo Scytalopus griseicollis gilesi NOT YET EVALUATED This species ha a black bill with lower mandible slightly lighter at base; iris dark brown; head, mantle and tail dark graybrown; underparts to breast gray, becoming slightly lighter on lower belly; wing coverts and flight feathers dark gray with tertials tipped ochraceous brown, with dark […]
Vanikoro White eye discovered in 2008
Vanikoro White-eye Zosterops gibbsi NOT YET EVALUATED A new species of white-eye, the Vanikoro White-eye Zosterops gibbsi, is described from the island of Vanikoro (= Vanikolo) in the Santa Cruz Islands (= Temotu Province) within the Solomon Islands. It differs from the geographically closest white-eye, the Santa Cruz White-eye Zosterops sanctaecrucis, by a number of […]
Monteiro’s Storm petrel discovered in 2008
Monteiro’s Storm-petrel Oceanodroma monteiroi NOT YET EVALUATED Iris dark brown; bill, legs and feet black. This species has the entire head, mantle, scapulars, back and upper rump and upper tail sooty brown-black. Nape, mantle and scapulars, back and upper rump with grey wash in good light. Longest scapulars thinly edged very pale grey. Upper tail […]
Olive backed Forest Robin discovered in 2008
Olive-backed Forest Robin Stiphrornis pyrrholaemus NOT YET EVALUATED This species has forehead and crown blackish gray. Nape dark gray with slight Olive-Green wash increasing at the bacxk of the head. Back and rump olive-green. Rectrices fuscous fringed slightly browner than rump and same color as the upper tail coverts. Remiges brownish-olive narrowly fringed with olive-green. […]
Nonggang babbler discovered in 2008
Nonggang babbler Stachyris nonggangensis NOT YET EVALUATED It has relatively short, rounded wings and medium-length rounded tail; wings longer than tail; relatively strong legs; medium-length straight bill; stiff forehead feathers; oval nares; and general body proportions. It is of relatively large size, it has a dark-grayish-brown body and chin; broad dark-grayish-brown spots on white throat […]
Solomon Islands Frogmouth discovered in 2007
Solomon Islands Frogmouth Polioptila clementsi NOT YET EVALUATED Originally, the bird was misclassified as a subspecies of the Australian Marbled Frogmouth, Podargus ocellatus. The blunder went undetected for decades, until a collecting trip led by Kratter in 1998 turned up a specimen on Isabel, a 1,500-square-mile island in the Solomons. The Solomon Islands Frogmouth differs […]