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Endangered and Unknown: Pale-headed Brush-Finch

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Currently endemic to a single valley system in the Andes of Ecuador, this species escaped detection from researchers for thirty years until the rediscovery of a few pairs in November 1998 by Dr. Neils Krabbe. In November 2010, I backpacked for fifty days via the reasonably good bus system in Ecuador.

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Birds of Bolivia: Field Guideā€“A Book Review

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Like a shy stepchild, it’s always eclipsed by the wonders of Brazil, Ecuador, Colombia, etc. This is more than eBird reports–a checklist generated from the citizen science database lists only 1,413 species. Plate 97: Andean and partly Andean antshrikes, illustrated by Oscar Tintaya.

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