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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Daniel Philippe" data-source="post: 1195596" data-attributes="member: 64614">A big thank you to all who responded and provided valuable insight.I am well aware of the secrecy surrounding some of these discoveries (not only to avoid an honour theft, but also supposedly to better protect the area), I am hence not going to look for info about them, but as there are many discoveries being unveiled, I find it interesting to remain updated on their development (especially the taxa I saw of course, but not only that). I was with Bret Whitney in Sept 2006 when we saw what he said could have been the “Allpahuayo Hawk” in the Jaú National Park (Brazil - Amazonas), but unfortunately Bret was the one who did not see it well enough to confirm. He however made no secret about the prior sightings of this hawk in Peru and Brazil (I do not know more as I haven’t read Amaral's article yet).And we did see with him other non described taxa such as the “Island Streaked Flycatcher”, similar to Myiodynastes maculatus, but with a different voice and only found on the Solimoes/Amazon islands or the “Jau Tody-Tyrant” with a song different from other Hemitriccus. I would also welcome any progress on the description of these birds.I actually have many others to deal with, but I think I will post about them later with one thread per species or family to shorten the messages and not mix everything. |=)|Daniel</blockquote>