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UNIFORM FINCH Haplospiza unicolor ATLANTIC FOREST
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The bamboo specialist Uniform Finch is a very rare bird in Paraguay. It is one of a group of species that move about nomadically in search of flowering bamboo, somehow able to sense when and where it is likely to happen! As a result they may be present one year in any given location but absent the next, making them very difficult to pin down. This species and other bamboo nomads are becoming progressively rarer as deforestation fragments the humid forest, making it more difficult for them to lead their nomadic existence.
FIGURE 1 - Adult male, PROCOSARA, PN San Rafael (Sylvia Qu May 2008 - ECOSARA Biodiversity Database).
FIGURE 2 - Adult male, PROCOSARA, PN San Rafael (Alberto Esquivel March 2008 - ECOSARA Biodiversity Database).
FIGURE 3 - Adult male, PROCOSARA, PN San Rafael (Paul Smith March - ECOSARA Biodiversity Database).
FIGURE 4 - Same individual head detail (Paul Smith March - ECOSARA Biodiversity Database).
FIGURE 5 - Same indiviudal upperwing (Paul Smith March - ECOSARA Biodiversity Database).
FIGURE 6 - Same individual underwing (Paul Smith March - ECOSARA Biodiversity Database).
FIGURE 7 - Adult female, Hotel Tirol, Departamento Itapúa (Paul Smith June).
FIGURE 8 - Possible immature male head detail, PROCOSARA, PN San Rafael (Paul Smith March - ECOSARA Biodiversity Database).
VIDEO - Same individual as Figs 3-6 (Paul Smith March - ECOSARA Biodiversity Database).
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Haplospiza unicolor song recorded PROCOSARA, PN San Rafael (Paul Smith March 2007 - ECOSARA Biodiversity Database).
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