Working to save the Black-breasted Puffleg
Despite its popularity with the public, Ecuador’s most endangered endemic hummingbird is rare, extremely localized, and not well known by scientists — even those who are trying to protect it.
Brian Kluepfel is the editor of the newsletter for Saw Mill River Audubon in Westchester County, New York, and a contributor to Lonely Planet and Fodor’s travel guides. He has written for BirdWatching about Bolivia’s Blue-throated Macaw and Ecuador’s Black-breasted Puffleg.
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Despite its popularity with the public, Ecuador’s most endangered endemic hummingbird is rare, extremely localized, and not well known by scientists — even those who are trying to protect it.
In Bolivia’s northwestern grasslands, a former Dutch arborist and others are working to save one of the world’s rarest macaws