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An expedition team in Venezuela, supported by American Bird Conservancy, rediscovered Urich’s Tyrannulet, a flycatcher bird endemic to the cloud forests of northeastern Venezuela.
It has only ever been seen four times since 1899. The last sighting was in 2005, and it was one of 16 bird species in South America no one had reported in eBird, which prompted a team of ornithologists and local naturalists to go looking for it and find out if it had gone extinct.
📸: David Ascanio
At the end of February, an expedition team of ornithologists, researchers, local naturalists and guides surveyed the northern slope of the Murrucucú mountains in Córdoba department in Colombia for 11 days searching for the Sinú Parakeet.
The brightly-colored bird hasn’t been seen since 1949. The team didn’t find the Sinú Parakeet, but what they did find has made them even more hopeful that the parakeet is still hiding somewhere in the northern sector of the Western Andes. They documented 238 species of birds, approximately 30 of which had never been found in Córdoba before. Among those was the Sapayoa, a small bird that had also only been documented in Córdoba once before in 1949.
Read more about the expedition supported by American Bird Conservancy, Sociedad Ornitológica de Córdoba - Soc, Asociación Calidris, Parques Nacionales Naturales de Colombia, COLOMBIA Birding, Vortex Optics Colombia, Urabá Nature Tours, Empresa URRA SA ESP and Global Wildlife Conservation.
📷 Carlos Bran-Castrillón/Urabá Nature Tours
