Comments on: New Bird Discovered in India

By: twblack

twblack — Wed, 13 Sep 2006 17:47:26 +0000

What a cool looking bird.

By: kittenz

kittenz — Wed, 13 Sep 2006 11:53:01 +0000

How wonderful to read about the discovery of a new species instead of the demise of an existing one!

By: youcantryreachingme

youcantryreachingme — Wed, 13 Sep 2006 00:33:01 +0000

Beautiful bird, and fantastic news.

Again – harkening back to your recent article about what constitutes a “new species”… in this case the discoverer first saw it over ten years ago before being able to confirm it as a new species this year.

Anyone who’d known about it since 1995 and looked for it in the intervening years could really have laid claim to the ‘cryptozoologist’ title – the study of hidden animals.

It’s a shame the photographer used a flash; I’d have loved to see it’s colours in natural sunlight. Even so – look at those wing tips.

The Birdlife International website that planettom linked to (above) makes an interesting note that the feathers – and not a complete specimen – were used as the species holotype.

Commendation to the discoverers for releasing the bird alive!

By: crypto_randz

crypto_randz — Tue, 12 Sep 2006 23:07:53 +0000

That really is a beautiful specimen, I live in connecticut and right by my home I have seen some good size hawks flying above. I have never seen hawks that large. Last week I was looking out the window I saw this hawk circling and hovering above probably going after prey, it was pretty good size, a little more than medium size.

By: crypto_randz

crypto_randz — Tue, 12 Sep 2006 23:07:24 +0000

That really is a beautiful specimen, i live in connecticut and right by my home i have seen some good size hawks flying above, i havent never seen hawks that large, last week i was looking out the window i saw this hawk circling and hovering above probablly going after prey, it was pretty good size alittle more than medium size.

By: planettom

planettom — Tue, 12 Sep 2006 16:38:05 +0000

Shum, there is more information at the Birdlife International website.

By: shumway10973

shumway10973 — Tue, 12 Sep 2006 16:35:29 +0000

beatiful! What a week for cryptids. First we find a living fossil in a hairy rhino and now this beauty above. So, what is this bird related to? What size it is? We need to know more.

By: planettom

planettom — Tue, 12 Sep 2006 16:02:38 +0000

Beautiful specimen. My dad introduced me to bird watching at an early age. I tend to appreciate it more as I get older. Birds truly are beautiful creatures. I still hope to catch a glimpse of a possible thunder-bird one day.

The Bugun above, reminds me of a warbler, but hard to make out the size.

Nice find, and congrats to Athreya.