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Are you familiar with Flickr? If not, Flickr is a great online tool to share photos. The problem is that Flickr is so popular that sometimes it is a bit hard to find exactly what we want. To help with this situation there are groups where users can share photos grouped according to different subjects. Now [...] UPDATE 6/25/2010: One month ago we published the description of this species in the middle of a controversy between ProAves and Mr. Caranton who discovered and collected the species. At that time we only had access to ProAves version since Mr Caranton had not yet published his description. Now we provide the other side of [...] The Tapaculos (genus Scytalopus) is one of the most difficult to identify families of birds, mainly because of the similarity in appearance to others within the genus. However an important differentiating characteristic is their voice. In recent years many new species of Tapaculos have been described due to analyses of their song. On February 9th, Dr. [...] After 50 years of absence, the Andean Condor has started to regain lost ground in the mountains of Leymebamba in the Amazon region of Peru. In the last months of 2009, residents of this area of cloud forest saw two pairs of Andean condors flying over the mountains. A juvenile was later found when, in [...] Andrew Spencer recorded for the first time the effect of the twist in the wings of the recently described Rufous Twisting (Cnipodectes superrufus) during a slow wingbeat flight between perches .
©Joseph Tobias According to Lane et al. 2007 “Mechanical noises have been noted in both species of Cnipodectes. Hilty and Brown (1986: 483) [...] |
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