Dear all,
Not intending to belittle the rediscovery of this bird but if it hasn't
been heard calling for 118 years (if ever) what are the ornithologists
playing back to it?
Cheers
Stuart Dashper
The rediscovery of the New Caledonian Owlet-Nightjar (Aegotheles Savesi) on
Bonfire Night
This is the
first sighting by ornithologists of the New Caledonian Owlet-Nightjar since
the type was collected from the bedroom of a house in the village of
Tonghoue (near Paita) in 1880, representing its rediscovery after 118
years.
The observations of this species were made by two ornithologists on Project
Diadema, Jonathan Ekstrom and Joe Tobias.
Subsequent searches at this site in the following week for five days and
nights provided no further records of this bird, either aural or visual,
despite the use of playback and intense fieldwork by five ornithologists,
four from Project Diadema and Yves Letocart from the Direction des
Ressources Naturelles.
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