Paramo del Duende on the Chocò-Valle del Cauca border in Colombia is an isolated, barely-explored paramo in a part of the world that has quite a few very range-restricted endemics - perhaps an undescribed tapaculo or hummingbird lurks there? Also the upper elevations of the San Lucas mountains in Colombia remain unexplored by ornithologists as far as I know, but major safety issues remain there.
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Unbirded localities of the world (1 Viewer)
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raymie
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Is that the area from which the Narino Cat was recently described?
Andy Adcock
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Parts of the Philippines are possibly holding new birds. Until the site was visited for the first time in a long time, in 2003, Isabela Oriole hadn't been seen for years and there's been a new Rail and a Parrotfinch discovered in the last twenty years.
Xenospiza
Distracted
No, the cat is from the Galeras Volcano in Nariño, a long way south of the Páramo del Duende or the San Lucas mountains.
Sangahyando
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Why "hopefully"?
The inhabitants are theorised to have no immunity to most common diseases and would be possibly affected in the same way as new world inhabitants were by contact.
Jacana
Will Jones
Because the inhabitants are, while not exactly uncontacted, not willing to open up to the outside world and aggressively repel any attempts at contact. They want privacy and that's what they should get.
For what it's worth, I highly doubt anything interesting bird-wise is lurking there. There's not much in the way of elevation and I suspect anything large (like maybe Narcondam Hornbill) has long been hunted to extinction.
I don't suppose there would be anything new to science there, but how interesting would some of the shootier bits of Dagestan be, birding-wise? There can't be too many birders wandering around the foothills of the range of mountains between Dagestan and Georgia/Azerbaijan...
Jammu and Kashmir, plus Pakistan-administered Kashmir, must have been fairly well covered during the British era - are there any/many local birders or birding tours that go there?
Jammu and Kashmir, plus Pakistan-administered Kashmir, must have been fairly well covered during the British era - are there any/many local birders or birding tours that go there?
Andy Lakin
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After reading the start of this thread I Googled how many species of bird are believed still to be found. There seems to be various estimates for mammals, fish, plants etc but I couldn't find a figure solely for birds albeit I only gave it c5 minutes. Has anybody seen any figures anywhere?
DMW
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I feel the same way, maybe I should make a few spears and declare myself North Sentinalese.
The "Narino Cat" is also apparently an Oncilla and not a new species: Distribution of the northern pampas cat, Leopardus garleppi, in northern South America, confirmation of its presence in Colombia and genetic analysis of a controversial record from the country
DMW
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The short answer is yes, to varying degrees depending on which part of Kashmir. There are quite a lot of local birders on the Indian side of the line of control, fewer on the Pakistan side. However, so much of the region is difficult to access for either topographic or political reasons, there could be the odd surprise or two. In particular, Sillem's Rosefinch must surely still be present in the Aksai Chin area.
raymie
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Depends on who you ask, there certainly has been wide support for recognizing it. See this paper:
Morphological and Genetics Support for a Hitherto Undescribed Spotted Cat Species (Genus Leopardus; Felidae, Carnivora) from the Southern Colombian Andes - PubMed
In 1989, a skin of a small spotted cat, from the Galeras Volcano in southern Colombia (Nariño Department), was donated to the Instituto Alexander von Humboldt (identification, ID 5857) at Villa de Leyva (Boyacá Department, Colombia). Although originally classified as <i>Leopardus tigrinus</i>...
pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Jacana
Will Jones
Do you know of any trips made to the Ayau or Asia Islands? They seem remote enough to have an endemic White-eye. But maybe the forest there is basically just coconut groves?
pbjosh
missing the neotropics
Fairly well birded, obviously not in comparison with, say, the Rio Grande Valley, Spurn, or the Singapore Botanical Gardens... but a fair number of people get there. Not all valleys get birded regularly and, for instance, Long-billed Bush-Warbler was only recently found breeding and reliably / repeatedly documented. But people are getting there, even this schlocky low-lister
List of bird species discovered since 1900 - Wikipedia
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Ficedula
velico ergo sum
Afraid not, many islands between Raja Empat and Halmahera could hold undescribed taxa, but mostly low lying. i do not know if anyone has visited since the early collectors.
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