A Cornell University team discovered a new taxon of Capito barbet on the isolated Cerros de Sira in central Peru in 2009. Clearly has affinities with C. wallacei, but quite different. Read it here:
http://www.allaboutbirds.org/netcommunity/page.aspx?pid=1788#top.
photo here:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/42595788@N00/4520551671/in/photostream/
Andy
http://www.allaboutbirds.org/netcommunity/page.aspx?pid=1788#top.
photo here:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/42595788@N00/4520551671/in/photostream/
Andy
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