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The spectacular Araripe Manakin was only discovered in 1996. The male’s bright, helmet-like crown led to its Portuguese nickname soldadinho-do-araripe, “Little Soldier of Araripe.”

Another local nickname for the Araripe

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Migration is big. Especially when you’re a tiny Cerulean Warbler.

This species’ epic journey was tracked for the first time in Spring 2016, when 19 Cerulean Warblers were outfitted with

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A common and conspicuous bird across much of North America west of the Mississippi River, the Western Meadowlark (Sturnella neglecta) was first officially described in 1805 by the famed explorer