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GREEN-CHINNED EUPHONIA Euphonia chalybea ATLANTIC FOREST NEAR THREATENED
The Green-chinned Euphonia is in steep decline. An Atlantic Forest endemic with a huge bill that suggests a specialist, though as yet unknown, diet, it is known from very few Paraguayan records. The photos of a lone female below represent the first Paraguayan records of the bird since the mid-1990s and fears were beginning to grow of its local extinction. Though loss of habitat is obviously a factor in the decline of this handsome species, we donīt yet know enough about its biology to be able to propose effective conservation measures.
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FIGURE 1 - (FPAVE3883PH) Adult female lateral view, PROCOSARA, PN San Rafael (Paul Smith March 2013).
FIGURE 2 - (FPAVE3884PH) Same individual ventral (Paul Smith March 2013).
FIGURE 3 - (FPAVE3885PH) Same individual chin (Paul Smith March 2013).
VIDEO - (FPAVE3886VI) Adult female, PROCOSARA, PN San Rafael (Paul Smith March 2013).
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