Eaglenest Wildlife Sanctuary

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Eaglenest Wildlife Sanctuary is in Arunachal Pradesh, India.

1 Discovery of bird species
2 Notes
3 References
4 External links

[edit] Discovery of bird species

It is the site from where a new species of bird was described in 2006 after being discovered by a professional astronomer, Ramana Athreya.^[1] The Bugun Liocichla, Liocichla bugunorum, is a passerine bird species from the Old World babbler family closely related to the Grey-faced Liocichla. The species was first spotted in the sanctuary in 1995 but was not seen again for ten years. Athreya spotted them again in May 2006 but did not publicize it until he was able to confirm it to be a new species. It was initially identified as a Grey-faced Liocichla, Liocichla omeiensis, a species of liocichla endemic to China. Birds caught in a mist net differed slightly from the Chinese liocichlas and the species was identified as new to science. Due to the apparent rarity of the species no type specimen was collected, instead feathers from the mist net, photographs, recordings and notes were used as the holotype.^[2] ^[1] The International Code of Zoological Nomenclature allows for new species to be described without the collection of type specimens, but this provision has been used only in a few instances. This provision was first used in the description of the Bulo Burti Boubou (Laniarius liberatus), an African bushshrike species.

The existence of a new bird species^[3], later to be called the Bugun Liocichla, was first noted in a posting to the Natural History of South Asia mailing list an electronic mailing list in 1996^[4]. It was only in 2006, however that this species was formally described.