I love birds. I have a Medium Sulphur Crested Cockatoo and he is like a member of our family. I love outside birds too. Not in a geeky bird-watching way, but I used to watch each year for the robins to come back as harbingers of Spring, and the beauty of the cardinals, the rat-a-tat-tat of the woodpeckers, and I even saw a bluebird once, although later I was told, "can't be they are extinct." I know what I saw and I know the difference between a Blue Jay and a Blue Bird. I thought the Great Horned Owl that lived in my yard in Indiana was a beauty, but he scared me because I had small dogs and kitties running around. The one bird I hated was a resident Screech Owl. There is nothing that will raise the dead, or at least the dead to the world sleeper, quicker than a Screech Owl at 3:00 AM. Out here in California, my yard is full of Hummingbirds. Beautiful little balls of energy who flit through my weeping willow and build their nests among the bougainvillas. My Mother used to think it was good luck to see a Red-winged Blackbird. I, as a small child, just thought they were cool. And one time, on one of my many trips back and forth from the East Coast to the West, I stopped at a scenic spot on top of a mountain and eagle flew by as I stood there taking in the magnificent scenery. He was almost at eye level with me and I swear he looked me directly in the eye as if to rub it in how free he was.
This new species is beautiful, don't you think. How many species of all types are still to be discovered?
New Bird Species Found in Colombian Cloud Forest
BOGOTA, Colombia — A colorful new bird has been discovered in a previously unexplored Andean cloud forest, spurring efforts to protect the area, conservation groups said Monday.
The bright yellow and red-crowned Yariguies brush-finch was named for the indigenous tribe that once inhabited the mountainous area where it was discovered.
For conservationists the discovery of the species came at a crucial time — the government has decided to set aside 500 acres of the pristine cloud forest where the bird lives to create a national park.
"The bird was discovered in what is the last remnants of cloud forest in that region," Camila Gomez, of the Colombia conservation group ProAves, said on Monday. "There are still lots of undiscovered flora and fauna species that live in the area."
The small bird can be distinguished from its closest relative — the yellow-breasted brush finch — by its solid black back and the lack of white marks on its wings.
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