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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.
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FIGURE 1 - (FPAVE3974PH) Adult male, PROCOSARA, PN San Rafael (Paul Smith April 2011).
FIGURE 2 - (FPAVE3975PH) Adult male, PROCOSARA, PN San Rafael (Sylvia Qu May 2008).
FIGURE 3 - (FPAVE3976PH) Adult male, PROCOSARA, PN San Rafael (Paul Smith March 2007).
FIGURE 4 - (FPAVE3977PH) Same individual head detail (Paul Smith March 2007).
FIGURE 5 - (FPAVE3978PH) Same indiviudal upperwing (Paul Smith March 2007).
FIGURE 6 - (FPAVE3979PH) Same individual underwing (Paul Smith March 2007).
FIGURE 7 - (FPAVE3980PH) Adult female, Hotel Tirol, Departamento Itapúa (Paul Smith June 2004).
FIGURE 8 - (FPAVE3981PH) Immature male head detail, PROCOSARA, PN San Rafael (Paul Smith March 2007).
VIDEO A - (FPAVE3982VI) Adult male, PROCOSARA, PN San Rafael (Paul Smith April 2011).
VIDEO B - (FPAVE3983VI) Same individual as (FPAVE3976PH) (Paul Smith March 2007).
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Haplospiza unicolor
1(FPAVE3984RE) Song  recorded PROCOSARA, PN San Rafael (Paul Smith March 2007).
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