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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Rgallardy" data-source="post: 3600655" data-attributes="member: 128535">Alan,The leaf-warbler is considered henrietta, the same ssp as Halmahera. It actually was just discovered to occur on Morotai by Marc Thibault a few years ago. Although I only saw one bird (and didn't see any on Halmahera) it doesn't seem to differ much vocally/plumage wise. So I doubt it'll be split anytime soon. I'm more interested in the Moluccan Scops-owls found on Morotai as well as a few of the other islands. Ssp Morotensis sounded significantly lower pitched to me compared to leucospilus and the alarm calls I heard from albiventris were quite different than the other birds in the Moluccas. Of course my sample size is limited to a few observations of each ssp (so there's plenty of wishful thinking), but I'm a big fan of more scops-owl splits. ;-)</blockquote>