Common name: Recurve-billed Bushbird Scientific name: Clytoctantes alixii This male Bushbird was photographed by ProAves staff, Adriana Tovar and Luis Eduardo Uruena. The publication of these photos is the first time this globally Endangered species has been captured on camera. This Bushbird inhabits a relic dry pre-montane cloud forest and is a very unique area [...]
Common name: Gorgeted Puffleg Scientific name: Eriocnemis isabellae A new species of hummingbird discovered almost by accident in Colombia by two ornithologists Alexander Cortés-Diago and Luis Alfonso Ortega.The bird has an enlarged, bi-coloured iridescent throat patch (hence ‘Gorgeted’) in males and white tufts above the legs which are characteristic of ‘Puffleg’ hummingbirds. This species was [...]
