{"id":31858,"date":"2017-07-25T11:23:33","date_gmt":"2017-07-25T15:23:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.allaboutbirds.org\/news\/?p=31858"},"modified":"2017-09-29T14:46:52","modified_gmt":"2017-09-29T18:46:52","slug":"lost-to-science-for-60-years-tachira-antpitta-is-rediscovered-in-venezuelan-andes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.allaboutbirds.org\/news\/lost-to-science-for-60-years-tachira-antpitta-is-rediscovered-in-venezuelan-andes\/","title":{"rendered":"Lost to Science for 60 Years, T\u00e1chira Antpitta Is Rediscovered in Venezuelan Andes"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The T\u00e1chira Antpitta had not been seen since its scientific discovery in the mid-1950s. Illustration by John A. Gwynne, courtesy Princeton University Press.<\/em><\/figcaption>\n <\/figure><\/div>\n

From the Autumn 2017 issue of <\/em>Living Bird magazine. Subscribe now<\/a>.<\/em><\/small><\/p>\n

Jhonathan Miranda never expected to be into birds. But when the Venezuelan biologist got a job at a bird lab as a university student, he set his mind to learning as much as he could about the class Aves. As he organized trips around the country, one particular species lodged in his mind: the T\u00e1chira Antpitta<\/a>, a round, leggy brown bird a little longer than a pencil. It hadn\u2019t been seen since a handful of specimens were collected from the Andean cloud forests on the Venezuela-Colombia border in 1955\u201356. Was it a valid species? Miranda wondered. Did it even exist?<\/p>\n

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