Sincorá Antwren Formicivora grantsaui NOT YET EVALUATED The Sincorá Antwren is restricted to the Serra do Sincorá in the Chapada Diamantina, Bahia. It is found in campos rupestres (rocky montane scrub) while the similar Rusty-backed Antwren F. rufa is found in cerrado, borders of gallery forest and white-sand forest. It differs from Rusty-backed Antwren in […]
Category: New species
Yariguies Brush finch discovered in 2006
Yariguies Brush-finch Atlapetes latinuchus yariguierum NOT YET EVALUATED Crown dark rufous, facial mask black; mantle, wing-coverts, alula, flight-feathers, rump and rectrices closest to black, with virtually no contrast between mask and back. Very narrow line of six short yellow feathers below rufous crown, at base of bill. Throat, malar, breast and belly uniform yellow, becoming […]
Hocking’s Conure discovered in 2006
Hocking’s Conure Aratinga hockingi NOT YET EVALUATED General plumage green; paler to breast and abdomen, forehead, forecrown and eye area dark red; scattering of red feathers to sides of head; also to throat, nape, breast and abdomen; greater under wing-coverts as well as underside of flight and tail feathers olive-yellow; periophthalmic ring whitish; iris yellow-brownish; […]
Bugun Liocichla discovered in 2006
Bugun Liocichla Liocichla bugunorum VULNERABLE Overall, an olive-grey bird with a black cap, black uppertail. It has a striking gold streak either side of a black eye, gold in the wing as a broad panel and extending as gold fringes to the primaries. Otherwise dark remiges and retrices are tipped with vibrant red. The closed […]
Bougainville Bush warbler discovered in 2006
Bougainville Bush-warbler Polioptila clementsi NEAR THREATENED Cettia haddeni is endemic to the island of Bougainville, Paupa New Guinea. It has only recently been described, although its existence has long been known to local inhabitants. Since 1972, ornithologists have been aware of its presence, but only through voice. Years of civil war prevented fieldwork in the […]
Camiguin Hanging parrot discovered in 2006
Camiguin Hanging-parrot Loriculus (philippensis) camiguinensis NOT YET EVALUATED The Camiguin Hanging Parrot, Loriculus (philippensis) camiguinensis, is a hanging parrot endemic only on the Philippine island of Camiguin, where its habitat is diminishing. The taxonomy of this population of parrots on Camiguin is uncertain. The Camiguin Hanging Parrot is mostly green with blue throat, face and […]
Planalto Tapaculo discovered in 2005
Planalto Tapaculo Scytalopus pachecoi LEAST CONCERN It is about 12 cm long and weighs around 15 grams. The upperparts are mainly dark grey, the underparts are paler grey. The flanks are buff with dark bars. Adult males of the Mouse-coloured Tapaculo are uniformly dark grey with no flank barring. The song contains a long series […]
Upper Magdalena Tapaculo discovered in 2005
Upper Magdalena Tapaculo Scytalopus rodriguezi ENDANGERED Typical Scytalopus tapaculo, predominantly slate-grey all over with some buff-brown barring on the belly. Similar spp lacks distinguishing plumage features. Best identified on voice. Voice the song is amongst the simplest of any Scytalopus, consisting of a single note repeated at a pace of 4-5 per second usually given […]
Stiles’s Tapaculo discovered in 2005
Stiles’s Tapaculo Scytalopus stilesi LEAST CONCERN Stiles’s Tapaculo’s song is considerably faster and lower-pitched than that of the closely related Ecuadorian Tapaculo S. robbinsi. Furthermore, it is genetically distinct and retains its integrity throughout a 300 km stretch of the Cordillera Central where it occupies montane forest between 1,420 and 2,130 m altitude. In this […]
Naung Mung Scimitar Babbler discovered in 2005
Naung Mung Scimitar-Babbler Jabouilleia naungmungensis NOT YET EVALUATED This is a timaliid assignable to the genus Jabouilleia by combination of the following characters: long, decurved bill; long legs, toes, and nails; relatively short tail and wings; general body proportions; and coloration. Separable from the other member of the genus by the longer bill, tarsus, hallux, […]