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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Rasmus Boegh" data-source="post: 1534407" data-attributes="member: 1146">It wasn't anywhere near Bosque de Ampay and it isn't recent. It was in 1990 near Tingo Maria in central Peru. Sendero Luminoso caught two birders that were looking for Oilbirds. They were convinced the birders were from CIA and reacted as one would expect Sendero Luminoso to do (birders and CIA?!?! the birders that were abducted in 1998 in Colombia by FARC were also accused of being CIA initially!). The vast majority of Peru (and a large part of Colombia, too) is now as safe as any other Neotropical country. Post #12 here:<a href="http://www.birdforum.net/showthread.php?t=146859" target="_blank">http://www.birdforum.net/showthread.php?t=146859</a>Larry; a fair percentage of the species on the list in post #31 have been seen by various BirdForum members. At least African Green Broadbill, Bulwer's Pheasant, Burmese Bushlark, Eaton's Pintail, Green-breasted Pitta, Hooded Treepie, Sumatran Cochoa, Vogelkop Bowerbird, White-browed Nuthatch, White-throated Babbler, and Grey-winged Cotinga. A small typo in the name of the hornbill; should be Narcondam Hornbill, and it has been seen in recent years, though Narcondam island is a bit of an outpost, even by Andaman standards. The big problem in this region are primarily the various species from the Nicobars (a special permission is needed to visit this island group) rather than the Andamans, which are visited with some regularity by birders. Of course no-one knows what may be hiding in the forests on the isolated North Sentinel Island (certainly has the potential for endemic species), as no birder or biologist ever has visited this island. The validity of the Naung Mung Scimitar Babbler as a separate species is questionable. Nigel Collar and Craig Robson, who certainly know as much about taxonomy and babblers as anyone, placed it as a subspecies of the Indochinese Wren Babbler, Rimator [Jabouilleia] danjoui in HBW vol. 12.EDIT:Here's a somewhat related thread (even if a part of the first page ended up as a discussion):<a href="http://www.birdforum.net/showthread.php?t=33016" target="_blank">http://www.birdforum.net/showthread.php?t=33016</a>(and yes, being from 2005, I am aware that some of the info I gave on pages 2 & 3 in that thread now is out-dated)</blockquote>

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