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Landmark Colombian bird study repeated to right colonial-era wrongs

A re-run of a 100-year-old, US-led bird survey will inform future conservation efforts — but be helmed by local researchers.
  1. Luke Taylor
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Colombia has more animal and plant species per square kilometre than anywhere else in the world. Pioneering US bird scientist Frank Chapman once said that the country was so rich in biodiversity that when his research team explored the area in the early twentieth century, it could have studied a single mountain range for five years and still not have mapped all of its fauna.

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Nature 601, 178-179 (2022)

doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-021-03527-x

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  1. Gómez, C., Tenorio, E. A. & Cadena, C. D. Conserv. Biol. 35, 1552–1563 (2021).

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