If you answered yes to either of these questions, odds are you may have seen or heard a chimney swift (Chaetura pelagica). From Wordnik.com. [News for InsideNova.com] Reference
Some bird species restricted to this ecoregion or found in few other places in Amazonia include ashy-tailed swifts (an austral migrant, Chaetura andrei), blue-tufted starthroats (Heliomaster furcifer), pavonine quetzals (Pharomachrus pavoninus), white-eared jacamars (Galbalcyrhynchus leucotis), endemic ochre-striped antpittas (Grallaria dignissima), curassows (Mitu salvini), a terrestrial bird, and golden-winged tody-flycatchers (Todirostrum calopterum). From Wordnik.com. [Solimões-Japurá moist forest] Reference
While the total number of species in old growth is lower than in some other seral stages (e.g., grass-forb), these forests provide important refugia for 19 vertebrate species, including bald eagle, northern spotted owl (Strix occidentalis caurina), flammulated owl (Otus flammeolus), boreal owl (Aegolius funereus), Vaux's swift (Chaetura vauxi), northern goshawk (Accipiter gentilis), black-backed woodpecker (Picoides arcticus), pileated woodpecker (Dryocopus pileatus), white-headed woodpecker (P. albolarvatus), three-toed woodpecker (P. tridactylus), red-breasted nuthatch (Sitta canadensis), pygmy nuthatch (S. pygmae), brown creeper (Certhia americana), golden-crowned kinglet (Regulus satrapa), Swainson's thrush (Catharus ustulatus), hermit thrush (C. guttatus), Townsend's warbler (Dendroica townsendi), pine marten (Martes americana), and fisher (M. pennanti). From Wordnik.com. [Blue Mountains forests] Reference
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