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From: "John Cummings" <>
Date: Fri, 13 Oct 2006 13:51:28 +1000

Something of interest from a friend

I saw this article today from cnn.com (I'm working virtual today from

home) that I thought John would like to read.  Here it is:

 

 

 

Multicolored bird hailed as new species

 

BOGOTA, Colombia (Reuters) -- A multicolored bird with reddish-brown and black eyes has been discovered as a new species in a Colombian cloud forest accessible only by helicopter, scientists say.

 

The fist-sized yellow and black Yariguies Brush-Finch, topped with an orange plume, was found by a Colombian-English ProAves Foundation team high atop the country's eastern Andean range in Santander province.

 

Discovery of the bird, named after an Indian tribe that once lived in the nature reserve where it was found, was published in the Bulletin of the British Ornithologists' Club.

 

Colombia, one of the most ecologically diverse countries in the world, has about 1,800 species of bird.

 

"The description of a new bird is a rare event," said expedition member Blanca Huertas of The Natural History Museum in London. "However, this is just the first of several new species that we will be describing from the Yariguies mountains, including several new butterflies."

 

Legend has it that the Yariguies tribe committed mass suicide to avoid enslavement by Spanish conquistadors.

 

John Cummings

CWC Coordinator

Sthn NSW & ACT

Mission Australia

Ph 02 6230 0182

Fax 02 6230 0181

Mob 0407 181 002

 

Enjoy this life

 

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