Papuan birder
- Lost in the Pacific -
The last days I have been trying to gather info, pictures and photos of the poorly known Olive ibis Bostrychia olivacea, it inhabit a few West African countries and small numbers also exist on Sao Tome.
The hbw books dont give you much info about the status, just that its rare on Sao Tome and also mentioned the status in a few other places, the birdlife factsheet just give you info about the Sao Tome species/subspecies and on the naturalis page I have found some info and a single museum photo on the extinct, Principe subspecies.
I still try to find some good page about the nominate race, which lives on the mainland, but strangely that one seems to be the most poorly known and also badly documented, I have seen a single photo of the mainland race, that is on a nest with eggs, the first nest found or something, have also seen three pictures of it, but still searching after a photo on a adult one? any out there?
Isnt this a bird which merit uplisting?
/Papuan birder
The hbw books dont give you much info about the status, just that its rare on Sao Tome and also mentioned the status in a few other places, the birdlife factsheet just give you info about the Sao Tome species/subspecies and on the naturalis page I have found some info and a single museum photo on the extinct, Principe subspecies.
I still try to find some good page about the nominate race, which lives on the mainland, but strangely that one seems to be the most poorly known and also badly documented, I have seen a single photo of the mainland race, that is on a nest with eggs, the first nest found or something, have also seen three pictures of it, but still searching after a photo on a adult one? any out there?
Isnt this a bird which merit uplisting?
/Papuan birder