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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Jacana" data-source="post: 1218696" data-attributes="member: 21533">On Tom Jenner's excellent website for birding in Gutamala, El Salvador and Honduras he describes some unknown possibles. The Tinamou sounds like the most promising...extract:One of the great things about Honduras is that there are opportunities to make new discoveries. Right within the main area for tourists along the north coast, especially at Lancetilla, there have been many reports by well respected birders, mostly in the 1950’s, of a large swift with a white nape (see Monroe for details). This may be White-naped Swift, which is otherwise an endemic to West Mexico, or it could be a new species. No specimens have yet been obtained, or photos taken, so keep your camera handy at all times... Mark Bonta, who is one of the leading authorities on the birds of Honduras and the undisputed expert on Olancho, once saw a strange hummingbird at Botaderos. He describes it as something between a Coquette (in terms of its patterning) and a Mountain-gem (in terms of structure). He cannot be sure if it was an aberrant, or a hybrid, or an undescribed species... On my one visit to Mosquitia... The most experienced resident birder in Las Marias (the most remote town in the region) is a guide called Martin. He is sure that he has seen and photographed an undescribed species of Tinamou. Unfortunately, he gave the photo to a foreign birder several years ago and has not heard back since. He still has the negative, but I was unable to see what the bird is like. When you are birding in areas like these there is always the chance for something unexpected and that, for me, makes it very exciting birding. <a href="http://www.mayanbirding.com/" target="_blank">http://www.mayanbirding.com/</a></blockquote>

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