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Message: <blockquote data-quote="jocateme" data-source="post: 975677" data-attributes="member: 42091">Today at the local newspaper there was an article about an expedition to Amazon, which led up to 4 new bird species discoveries.The article (Portuguese) is this one: <a href="http://www1.folha.uol.com.br/folha/ciencia/ult306u320157.shtml" target="_blank">http://www1.folha.uol.com.br/folha/ciencia/ult306u320157.shtml</a>Two trips to Purus/Madeira moist forests were made this year and many new species were discovered. The region is believed to be the most diverse of Amazon, and, before those trips, was practically unexplored. 4 new species of birds, 3 of mammals (including a monkey) and many new arachnids were discovered (actually they believe 98% of the arachnids seen there were new). The problem is that the region is highly threatened by projects of contructions of a road, a pipeline, a hidroeletric stations in Madeira river, illegal wood extraction, agriculture and cattle farming.The article didn't give details about what kind of birds they were, especially because they are not new species officially. The expeditionist ornithologist, Mario Cohn-Haft, told that AT LEAST four of the birds they've seen are newly discovered, two of them being endemics to that region.</blockquote>