One place birds (1 Viewer)

[jurek]

With reference to another thread about Taita Falcon, that 70% of birders who seen it, seen the same pair at Strydom Tunnel, which disappeared in 2019. I think 99% of birders who seen Palawan Peacock-Pheasant, seen the same fearless male which sadly disappeared few years ago.

Which other birds are seen only at one place and likely one pair or one individual?

https://www.birdforum.net/threads/taita-falcon-at-strydom-tunnel.441195

 

[JWN Andrewes]

Blakiston's Fish Owl?

 

[Welsh Peregrine]

Slender-billed Curlew (in the past!)

 

[Jacana]

While there are more than two individuals, you're hard pushed to find Bugun Liochicla outside of a small part of Eaglenest.

 

[opisska]

Jocotoco antpitta? Has anyone ever seen any but the habituated bird at the "exclusive" feeder?

 

[Mysticete]

For that matter, how many people have seen Giant Antpitta anywhere other than Paz de Aves?

 

[temmie]

I have seen Blakiston fish owl in a different place (in the wild) some days before the washi-no-yado bird at the minshuku.

I know of someone who has seen Giant antpitta on the Guacamayos ridge.

I wonder if this thread is about species that aren’t super rare but seem to be seen only at one site, more than about super rare species (which are obviously more seen at only one or two places as their range is so restricted, e.g. cherry-throated tanager).

I hope it’s about the first case (not that rare but not easy to find). Examples of those are Mountain peacock pheasant, Bulwer’s pheasant, Cundinamarca antpitta, Urrao antpitta, … so mostly feeder birds spring to my mind. Non feeder birds are probably harder to mention?

 

[jurek]

Yes, I meant mostly birds which are quite widespread, but only seen at one place and the same birds, because everybody goes to the same place.

Gunnison Sage Grouse could be a North American example. Here, however, more birds are seen.

 

[Andrew Whitehouse]

Grauer's Broadbill isn't seen much away from the Ruhija part of Bwindi Impenetrable Forest, Uganda. Probably very few individual birds are involved in most sightings.

Also in Uganda, Green-breasted Pitta is mostly seen at Kibale, even though it's a reasonably widespread species. Again, probably only a small number of birds are involved in most sightings.

Black-breasted Barbet isn't seen much away from Kidepo National Park, although again it's fairly widespread.

 

[Jacana]

Banded Ground Cuckoo is another. While they are seen elsewhere, I bet the vast majority of sightings refer to just a couple of individuals.

 

[Mysticete]

Yes, I meant mostly birds which are quite widespread, but only seen at one place and the same birds, because everybody goes to the same place.

Gunnison Sage Grouse could be a North American example. Here, however, more birds are seen.

I've seen Gunnison Sage Grouse away from a lek site in midsummer, but I would guess that most people have visited one of the few open leks.

 

[SlowLowFlyingTurkey]

Abyssinian Owl in Ethiopia and White-necked Rockfowl in Ghana - can't remember the names of the exact locations.
The tour I was on dipped the owl.

 

[Larry Sweetland]

Peru must have a lot of places where everyone only sees a particular species at a particular spot, that's either the same bird(s) or their offspring. To name but one, the Long-whiskered Owlet site has 4 species that spring to mind that I'd guess "everyone" will either see there or nowhere else

 

[Emily Taylor]

In Bolsa Chica Wetland Preserve there was this pair of Reddish Egrets you would often see, which was neat as they normally aren't around anywhere in south California. I even saw a third one with them once.

That was around 2012. Last post I saw on here mentioning or photographing them was in 2019 I believe.

 

[foresttwitcher]

In Bolsa Chica Wetland Preserve there was this pair of Reddish Egrets you would often see, which was neat as they normally aren't around anywhere in south California. I even saw a third one with them once.

That was around 2012. Last post I saw on here mentioning or photographing them was in 2019 I believe.

There were 2 there in August 2023.

 

[pbjosh]

Peru must have a lot of places where everyone only sees a particular species at a particular spot, that's either the same bird(s) or their offspring. To name but one, the Long-whiskered Owlet site has 4 species that spring to mind that I'd guess "everyone" will either see there or nowhere else

But there are other sites nearby (Fundación Alto Nieve etc) for those species so it’s really a smallish set of sites along a road.

 

[Jeff Hopkins]

I saw the Palawan Peacock-pheasant at the Zoo, since the one at the cave was no longer there.

 

[Jeff Hopkins]

Jocotoco antpitta? Has anyone ever seen any but the habituated bird at the "exclusive" feeder?

I saw the female and their offspring, but not Panchito himself.

 

[Emily Taylor]

There were 2 there in August 2023.

Yeah most of the time you only see 2. No idea where the third I saw that one time came from. Glad to know they're still around though.

 

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