Wonderful, John - I can envisage
the scene
From: John Cummings
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Sent: Friday, October 13, 2006
1:51 PM
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Subject: [canberrabirds] Of
interest
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
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