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| − | | color = pink | + | subject_name=Milchama Banks | photo=http://content.answers.com/main/content/wp/en/thumb/4/42/180px-Emy_Coligado.jpg| |
| − | | name = Yariguies Brush-finch
| + | caption1=Nationality | field1= [[Cookesland|Cookeslandic]] | |
| − | | image = Atlapetes_latinuchus.svg | + | caption2=Occupation | field2=Newsreader | |
| − | | image_width = 250px | + | caption3=Location | field3= [[Coricas]], [[Cookesland]]| |
| − | | regnum = [[Animal]]ia
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| − | | phylum = [[Chordate|Chordata]] | + | |
| − | | classis = [[bird|Aves]] | + | |
| − | | ordo = [[passerine|Passeriformes]]
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| − | | familia = [[Emberizidae]]
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| − | | genus = ''[[Atlapetes]]'' | + | |
| − | | species = ''[[Atlapetes latinuchus|A. latinuchus]]''
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| − | | subspecies = '''''A. l. yariguierum''''' | + | |
| − | | trinomial = ''Atlapetes latinuchus yariguierum''
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| − | | trinomial_authority = Donegan & Huertas, [[2006]] | + | |
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| − | The '''Yariguies Brush-finch''' (''Atlapetes latinuchus yariguierum'') is a [[subspecies]]<ref>
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| − | Most news reports erroneously claimed that it was "a new species". While the bird could theoretically eventually be elevated to species [[rank (zoology)|rank]], this is not very likely (Donegan & Huertas, 2006) and at any rate would require a thorough revision of the Yellow-breasted Brush-finch complex.</ref> of the [[Yellow-breasted Brush-finch]], discovered in [[2004]]<!-- 6 January, to be precise. "2004" is not a typo - it was *described* in 2006. --> in [[Colombia]].
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| − | ==Description==
| + | Milchama Banks was born outside [[Ariana]], in [[Cookesland]]. She lived there wih her parents until the age of 18 when she was accepted to The University of [[Windonesia]] on the presidential scholarship, where she majored in linguistics. Milchama then traveled abroad for a few years before returning home. She then got a job with the [[Cookeslandic Broadcasting Company|CBC]] and soon moved up the ladder. Milchama now works as the head newsreader for CBC. She is also one of the best known [[Cookesland|Cookeslanders]] of all time. She is very good friends with [[Richard York]]. |
| − | The feathers of the breast, abdomen, and throat are yellow; those of the coverts, primaries, secondaries, scapulars, auriculars, lores, and tail are black; the crown feathers are russet. It is unique among its [[conspecific]]s because it has a jet black back and wing with no white markings.<!-- *no* white markings is correct --> One of the [[type specimen]]s was photographed and a [[DNA]] sample taken, and subsequently the bird was released as researchers wanted to confirm that the new [[taxon]] is not [[endangered species|endangered]] before killing a number individuals as [[type (zoology)|type]] material<ref>
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| − | Despite some newsreports that this was unprecedented, it has indeed happened in a few cases since [[1991]]. See for example [[Bulo Burti Boubou]] and [[Bugun Liocichla]] (although the latter was published after Yariguies Brush-Finch, news reports appeared previously). Also, overlooked specimens of the brush finch were found in museum collections, and an individual was collected after it died from natural causes.</ref>
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| − | ==Distribution and Habitat==
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| − | Its habitat is the remote cloud [[rainforest]] in the northern Colombia. Experts believe the bird's habitat may be threatened{{Fact|date=February 2007}} which would add it to a list of a few hundred endangered birds in the nation. The pristine area where the birds live is one of the last remaining such Andean cloud forests in the country. The government has established a 190,000-acre park in the region (Donegan & Huertas 2005; Huertas & Donegan 2006). The discovery was made by Thomas Donegan, of Fundación ProAves and Blanca Huertas, of the Natural History Museum and University College London. The research team had regularly been studying the isolated and densely vegetated region for the last three years. Some regions had to be reached by all day hikes or helicopter drop.
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| − | ==Species discovery==
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| − | The bird has been discovered in the remote [[Yariguies]] mountains in an expedition co-led by [[Thomas Donegan]] of [[Fundación ProAves]] and [[Blanca Huertas]], a [[curator]] at the [[Natural History Museum]] in [[London]]. According the researchers, the region is so little explored that several more hitherto undescribed birds and butterflies are found there (Donegan & Huertas, 2006). Huertas, a [[lepidopterology|lepidopterologist]] by training, found several taxa of [[butterflies]] new to science (Anonymous, 2006). Further information about the biological exploration of the region is found in expedition reports (Donegan & Huertas 2005; Huertas & Donegan 2006). The vernacular name "Yariguies Brush-finch" was selected because the Yellow-breasted Brush Finch, as a subspecies of which it is currently classified, is to be [[Lumpers and splitters|split]] into several species, and it is not clear at the moment to which of these the newly-described bird would belong (Donegan & Huertas, 2006).
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| − | ===Etymology=== | + | ! bgcolor="red" style="font-size: 130%; color: white;" width=88% align=center| Well-Known Cookeslanders |
| − | The bird is named after the [[Yariguies]] indigenous tribe who give their name to the mountain range where the bird was found. [[Serranía de los Yariguíes]] was declared a national park last year by the [[Colombia]]n government and a large forest nature reserve was recently established in the region by [[Fundación ProAves]], Colombia's bird conservation
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| | + | | align=center colspan=5 | '''Characters:'''| [[Steven Andolor]] | [[Milchama Banks]] | [[Patrick Andolor]] | [[Lostelle Caelia]] | [[The Blue Eyed Man]] | [[Fiore Acquerello]] | [[GeM]] |
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| − | *UNFINISHED*
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