New Discovery: Yariguíes Brush-Finch
Posted by: Loren Coleman on October 6th, 2006
There’s great news from a remote mountain range in northern Colombia. A bird species new to science has been discovered!
The Yariguíes Brush-Finch (Atlapetes latinuchus yariguierum), a large and colorful finch with black, yellow and red plumage, first described in the June 2006 issue of the scientific journal Bulletin of the British Ornithologists Club, is gaining new and acknowledged notice throughout the zoological world this week. According to a recent news release from Conservation International, “the bird is named for the Yariguíes indigenous people who formerly inhabited the mountain range where the bird was found.”
“The description of a new bird is a rare event in modern times,” said Blanca Huertas of Natural History Museum and University College London. “However, this is just the first of several new species that we will be describing from the Yariguíes Mountains. In my own specialist group, butterflies, we have found several new taxa that will be described soon.”
The discoverers and descriptors of the new Yariguíes bird are Thomas Donegan y Blanca Huertas.
For Spanish readers of Cryptomundo, here’s more information from ProAves Colombia.
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That is certainly good news. Let’s hope more and more new species are discovered.
It’s a cute little thing! The plumage colors and shape alone make it look very South American, like a little native with a headdress.
Always good to see pockets of new biodiversity that mankind has not wiped out or befouled in any way. Look forward to more news like this.
Wonderful find! Beautiful bird. Great news to hear. I look forward to learning more about the other species they have discovered. Butterflies, and possibly other birds? Very good news.
World Wildlife Fund should finance a biodiversity expedition and help to conserve the area into a Nature Park.
What TERRIFIC news! I hope they find DOZENS of new species out there! Dare I hope for a new species of cat?
The Iowa State Bird with an orange crest!
Just goes to show that those people that say that there is no way any cryptids are real are the ones fooling themselves. Maybe n the next few years a pliosaur-like animal will be discovered, and, if huge enough, named Liopleurodon milenni.
Tweet. Twitter. Tweet. Just a finch, folks… nothing crypto to see here… please move along….
Hey wait a minute Sky King! Why can’t a little finch be a cryptid?! LOL Just because it’s little and cute and not big and hairy?