Hidde Bruinsma
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That makes perfect sense since the New Ireland birds are seen between 700 and 1400 m. while the New Britain birds seem te be restricted to the lowlands.
pdf: 'Great Nicobar Crake' : Rallina sp. nov. new Bird Species from Great Nicobar Island.Rajeshkumar, Ragunathan & Rasmussen 2012. An apparently new species of Rallina crake from Great Nicobar Island, India. BirdingASIA 17: 44–46.
Includes two photographs. Observed at Govind Nagar tsunami shelter on the east coast of Great Nicobar, 6 km from Campbell Bay - Nov 2011.
Hi all
I guess this belongs on this thread...
Nice one James Eaton and co...
http://burung-nusantara.org/news-and-events/new-bird-species-potentially-discovered-in-indonesia/
McM
parrotfinches are a very popular group for bird keepers and many unusual variants have been bred in Gouldian finch, red-throated parrotfinch, blue-faced parrotfinch, pin-tailed parrotfinch, tricolored parrotfinch, red-eared parrotfinch and perhaps others. There are also hybrids produced like red-throated X blue-faced, blue-faced X Gouldian and red-headed X tricolored. I have seen one photo of red-headed X tricolored and it looks like a red-eared parrotfinch with smaller red ear patch and more blue below. Very different from parents. From websites it sounds like most parrotfinches will produce hybrids easily. One website also warns that many red-eared parrotfinches in aviculture really are hybrids (http://www.avianweb.com/redearedparrotfinches.html). One could imagine a bird keeper buying a group of red-eared parrotfinches, discovering they are hybrids and then releasing them.
Bird keeping and trading is widespread in Indonesia. I don't know much about the variants and hybrids and don't know if one that looks like the Timor parrotfinch exists. I'm only saying this is a group where people have to be careful before calling something a new species. If the Timor parrotfinch is a new species it needs protection from bird trappers and I hope the exact site won't be released until protective measures have been established.
Lombok Scops Owl
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It is an undescribed species, apparently allready discovered several years ago, but kept surpressed for unknown but dubious reasons.
Bet Mikkola's cursing....would have been a good addition to the new book! Fab pics too (esp 2nd one), where would we be without lamping.....
Lombok Scops Owl
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On Oriental Birding today
"Hi,
I heard the rumour of an undescribed species of scops-owl from a Bali Barat NP ranger and tried my luck. I was able to fotograph the scops-owl last week in Lombok. It is an undescribed species, apparently allready discovered several years ago, but kept surpressed for unknown but dubious reasons. The pictures were taken north of Senggigi. The species occurs in lush gardes and coconut palmgroves mixed with other trees. During my surveys on three evenings I saw a few, but heard quite a lot of them. I think it is fairly common in this widespread habitat. I made some sound recordings as well, will shall be published on Xeno-canto. The sound is very unlike the of Moluccan Scops-owl, which is also supposed to occur on the island.
Best regards,
Wiel Poelmans."
Photos on the OBC Image Database
ISo did i see this undescribed owl? any toughts on the occurence of magicus on Lombock?
You'll have to wait for Wiel's recordings! Good going though. Funnily, I believe he had actually just been to Lombok on a BirdTour Asia trip.I describe 2 calls from this owl, a "soft, resonant 'hooa' [v diff to locate]...and a sharp squarkng 'kark-kark-kark' reminicent of a juvenile bird [this call readily allowed me to locate the bird].
Bird keeping and trading is widespread in Indonesia. I don't know much about the variants and hybrids and don't know if one that looks like the Timor parrotfinch exists. I'm only saying this is a group where people have to be careful before calling something a new species. If the Timor parrotfinch is a new species it needs protection from bird trappers and I hope the exact site won't be released until protective measures have been established.
Trainor, C. R. et al., 2012. The avifauna of Alor and Pantar, Lesser Sundas, Indonesia. Forktail 28: 77-92.