Have You Seen Any of These Birds? (1 Viewer)

[lewis20126]

From the list posted by Steve Chestnut-bellied Cotinga and Chestnut-headed Nunlet seem like pretty good bets for species no one on this thread has seen.

In the 1990s I spent quite a bit of time in Podocarpus NP where some of the first records of Chestnut-bellied Cotinga were made (though identified as Bay-vented at the time), but I never ran into one. There are a couple of places in northern Ecuador where the cotinga may be a little easier to find but they are rarely included on birders' itineraries.

I saw the Cotinga at Cerro Mongus in the mid 1990s, also Crescent-faced Antpitta here.

cheers, alan

 

[GMK]

Chestnut-headed Nunlet = on.

 

[Larry Lade]

Chestnut-bellied Cotinga & Chestnut-headed Nunlet moved to the "Seen" list.

 

[carjug]

I've got one, a mourning dove making the familiar hoo hoo hoo sound like an owl. It was years before I saw one doing this.

 

[Birdingcraft]

How about Unspotted Saw-whet Owl for the list? Myself and a few other local birders got crippling views of one last night on Turrialba Volcano, Costa Rica but I would still be interested in seeing if anyone else on Bird Forum has seen this elusive species. To give an idea of how difficult it is to find this species, the guy who located the bird we saw has been searching for them on and off for 5 years in Costa Rica.

 

[Ben88]

I saw a Snoring Rail at Nantu Forest Reserve on Sulawesi in August. It walked out in the open for about thirty seconds on my first morning at the clay lick. I spent four more days at the blind hoping it would return so I could get a photo, but I had to settle for the awesome mammal show. Details of the sighting are posted on the OBC mailing list.

I started a "Have You Seen Any of These Mammals" thread in the Mammals & Sea Life forum.

 

[chris butterworth]

One for the 'not seen' list Larry. Masafuera Rayadito. So near, yet so far last month.

Chris

 

[Larry Lade]

Unspotted Saw-whet Owl added to "Not seen" list. (special case, see post # 532)
Snoring Rail moved from "Not seen" list to "Seen" list.
Masafuera Rayadito added to "Not seen" list.

 

[James Eaton]

You can remove a further 3 species:

Black-lored Parrot, seen a couple of days ago on Buru in Indonesia.

Also, White-eared Night Heron (Vietnam, March 2012)
Przewalski's Parrotbill (Sichuan, China, June 2012).

James

 

[Larry Lade]

James, those are some nice species you were able to spot!

Black-lored Parrot, Przewalski's Parrotbill and White-eared Night-Heron moved from "Not seen" to the "Seen" list.

* Przewalski' Parrotbill, Paradoxornis przewalskii, aka. Rusty-throated Parrotbill.

 

[Jacana]

I've got all of them with the usual taxonomy. Actually, if I include potential splitted sub-species I just missed the Barn Owl and the extremely rare Principe Thrush.

I stayed 3 weeks on the archipel which is long enough to look for all endemics and take time to see/heard them again and again.

We did some seawatching as well and boat trips that produced many speciies including Black-bellied Storm-Petrel.

A very exciting trip indeed!

Next trip to Africa should allow me to get the 2000 mark on that continent. Hopefully a rare Tanzanian endemic

Regards,

As Valéry has seen all the Sao Tome endemics then they can come off the list (Dwarf Olive Ibis, Newton's Sunbird, Newton's Fiscal, Principe Sunbird & Sao Tome Sunbird)

 

[DMW]

You can remove a further 3 species:

Black-lored Parrot, seen a couple of days ago on Buru in Indonesia.

Also, White-eared Night Heron (Vietnam, March 2012)
Przewalski's Parrotbill (Sichuan, China, June 2012).

James

Well done getting the Parrot James - is this the first recent record?

 

[James Eaton]

Well done getting the Parrot James - is this the first recent record?

Thanks D, appears to be the first confirmed sightings since 1922, though the birds Poulsen and Lambert heard in 1995 and 1999 were the parrots for sure, as I have compared the vocalisations already. Fortunately for me, I had a powerful spotlight at hand as they flew low overhead!

 

[Larry Lade]

* Thanks, jacana, for itemizing the species seen by Valéry Schollaert.

Dwarf Olive Ibis, Newton's Sunbird, Newton's Fiscal, Principe Sunbird & Sao Tome Sunbird have been moved from the "Not seen" list to the "Seen" list.

 

[timsg80]

The following East African rarities are pretty unknown, don't know of anyone who's seen any of them:

Udzungwa Forest Partridge
Usambara Eagle Owl
Albertine Owlet
Dwarf Honeyguide
William's Lark
Swynnerton's Robin
Usambara Akalat
Dappled Mountain-Robin
Tana River Cisticola
Kilombero Cisticola
Usambara Hyliota
Long-billed Tailorbird
Karamoja Apalis
Chapin's Flycatcher
Red-collared Mountain-Babbler
Kulal White-eye
South Pare White-eye
Loveridge's Sunbird
Rockefeller's Sunbird
Rufous-winged Sunbird
Uluguru Bush-shrike
Fox's Weaver
Juba Weaver
Usambara Weaver
Shelley's Crimsonwing

 

[Ficedula]

seen these

Dusky Friarbird
Guadalcanal Thicketbird
Guadalcanal Thrush
Manus Fantail
New Britain Thrush


arn't these same thing?
Bismarck Thicketbird=New Britain Thicketbird

 

[Larry Lade]

Thanks for the correction, ficedula, both are Megalurulus grosvenori.

 

[Larry Lade]

I am going up to Omaha, Nebraska for the week-end for the Inland Bird Banding Association yearly meeting. So, I will try to get this thread all straightened out and updated when I return. Until then "keep the wheels a-turning"!

 

[DMW]

I've seen Madagascar Pochard and Sumatran Ground-Cuckoo.

 

[timsg80]

Has anyone seen:
Socotra Sparrow
Abd-al Kuri Sparrow (possibly subspecies of Socotra sparrow)
Island Cistocla
Socotra Starling
Socotra bunting
Palau Owl
Andaman Scops Owl
Flores Scops Owl
Mindanao Scops Owl
Luzon Scops Owl
Mindoro Scops Owl
Ryuku Scops Owl
Mantani Scops Owl
Sangihe Scops Owl
Biak Scops Owl
Simeule Scops Owl
Enggano Scops Owl
Anjouan Scops Owl
Moheli Scops Owl
Serendib Scops Owl