Birds to find: a review of ‘lost’, obscure and poorly known African bird species

A review of ‘lost’, obscure and poorly known African bird species: Butchart T corpse was partially squashed into the soil in a vehicle track, but it caught the attention of a group of British and Ethiopian wildlife surveyors during a night survey of Nechisar National Park, Ethiopia. As they prised it free, a few feathers blew away, but they salvaged a wing in good condition. It was about midnight on 3 September 1990, and this was the first and still the only time that the scientific and ornithological community has connected with what proved to be a previously undescribed species, Nechisar Nightjar Caprimulgus solala (Safford et al. 1995). Careful subsequent comparison with skins and other data indicated that the wing was highly distinctive and Birds to find: a review of ‘lost’, obscure and poorly known African bird species