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Confirmed? Quite possibly zero since the last specimen was collected in 1922. All those more recent sightings might have all actually been Painted BQ.The Buff-breasted buttonquail seems to be the holy grail of the Australian bird fauna. Despite camera traps and infra-red cameras it is still extremely difficult to track down this bird. And how will they know whether this species still exists?
My question is: How many reliable sightings have there been of the Buff-breasted buttonquail since the 1990s?
Yeah, there are some big personalities in Australian ornithology and things can become quite acrimonious.Oh I heard a different opinion on that from some guy's blog, The TRUE facts of the Buff-breasted Button-quail - Lloyd Nielsen's Birding Australia , how much water it holds not too sure, but I think the guy is trustworthy, and what he claims at the end (I presume about the people that wrote the Conversation article), does make them seem quite arrogant, but not too sure what to make of it overall.
mentioned in Article :: xeno-canto (another paper by these two authors from 2017 mentioned here: Buff-breasted Buttonquail (Turnix olivii) - BirdLife species factsheet), so it was definitely documented in 2016Confirmed? Quite possibly zero since the last specimen was collected in 1922. All those more recent sightings might have all actually been Painted BQ.
Is the buff-breasted button-quail still alive? After years of searching, this century-old bird mystery has yet to be solved
It may not be extinct, but our research suggests the buff-breasted button-quail may only be hanging on by a thread, at best.theconversation.com
If you look at this thread:Maffong writes: The top world listers are all below 9.800, meaning that all still need over 1.000 species, which I find a surprisingly high number.
Peter Kaestner is now at 9856 IOC, 9670 ebird (as of May 8th, 2023). Anyone else following his lists on ebird & Surfbird? Fun to watch his numbers grow!
janinmt
It's a shame that the paragraph about them seeing the species is so short, given especially how there are virtually no modern-day records.mentioned in Article :: xeno-canto (another paper by these two authors from 2017 mentioned here: Buff-breasted Buttonquail (Turnix olivii) - BirdLife species factsheet), so it was definitely documented in 2016
I made the mistake to request data about the species with the least observations on ebird. The number of species that weren't brought up so far was staggering, somewhere in the triple digits!
I follow his progress, I wonder wether he will break 10,000 before IOC breaks 11,000?Maffong writes: The top world listers are all below 9.800, meaning that all still need over 1.000 species, which I find a surprisingly high number.
Peter Kaestner is now at 9856 IOC, 9670 ebird (as of May 8th, 2023). Anyone else following his lists on ebird & Surfbird? Fun to watch his numbers grow!
janinmt
Many people visit St Helena on the Atlantic Odyssey which used to run annually and was usually fully booked.I think the same might be said of St Helena Plover?
I was told recently that there are flights out of South Africa?By the way you omitted Medium Tree Finch Geospiza pauper which only occurs in the highlands of Floreana, Galapagos where permission to visit is not allowed.
Many people visit St Helena on the Atlantic Odyssey which used to run annually and was usually fully booked.