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Recordings of Purple-throated Euphonia (Euphonia chlorotica) in the xeno-canto collection.




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25-11-2008. Adrian Eisen Rupp adds a great set from Santa Catarina state, Brazil. About 60 recordings, including two Helmeted Woodpeckers, a Thick-billed Saltator (very few known recordings of this species), Black-capped Piprites, and much more.

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Posted by bob on 2008-11-28, 14:34:
And check out the Kaempfer's Tody-Tyrant just uploaded by Adrian. Critically Endangered, and this is the first recording of its song on x-c, if I'm not mistaken.

Posted by Adrian on 2008-11-28, 16:18:
Hi Bob, There have another two recordings of Kaempfer's Tody Tyrant on xc. One by Rolf A. de By and another by Eduardo Patrial.

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24-11-2008. We're plugging an event: Honduras will host the first Mesoamerican Bird Festival in Feb. 2009. For more info. visit: www.travelwithmea.org and go to the Bird Festival logo link.
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24-11-2008. Registration was broken too, but it is fixed now.
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23-11-2008. Robert Gallardo joins and starts off with 3 new species from Honduras. Welcome Robert!
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23-11-2008. after a week of frustration the wimpy flash buttons are back in order. we did learn a few things in the process though and should be future proof. well, hopefully.
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23-11-2008. contributions by Mauricio Periquito, Alvaro Riccetto, Charlie Vogt, Roger Ahlmann and some serious mystery busting by Jesse Fagan. Good day!
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    Spotlight
Now featuring the recently rediscovered Golden-crowned Manakin (Lepidothrix vilasboasi)!
Recorded in 2008 by Sidnei Dantas in Pará, Brazil.
For more information on this species, see the recent Cotinga paper on the rediscovery by Fabio Olmos and Fernando Pacheco, or the article at BirdLife.
Golden-crowned Manakin, (c) Fabio Olmos
Golden-crowned Manakin
© Fabio Olmos.
Latest additions (more)
 Stresemann's Bristlefront by Ciro Albano from Brazil
 Sedge Wren by Jesse Fagan from Guatemala
 Spotted Rail by Alvaro Riccetto from Uruguay
 Spotted Rail by Alvaro Riccetto from Uruguay
 King Rail by Nathan Pieplow from United States
...Great work!
America collection statistics (more)
20831 recordings
3338 species
226 recordists
159 hr, 55 min total duration
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 Purple-throated Euphonia by Don Jones
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Latest mysteries (more)
 842 by Sidnei Dantas from Brazil view
 820 by Thomas Donegan from Colombia view
 818 by Thomas Donegan from Colombia view
 819 by Thomas Donegan from Colombia view
 817 by Thomas Donegan from Colombia view