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	Rare Smiling Bird

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7-25-2007 8:39 PM

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The rare recurve-billed bushbird, recently rediscovered by scientists in Colombia after a 40-year absence, sports a curving beak that gives the illusion of an enigmatic smile.
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This photograph, taken by a conservationist with the Colombia-based nonprofit Fundación ProAves, is the first ever taken of a live bushbird.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2007/06/070626-smiling-bird.html"><P>
The researchers also found and photographed the extremely rare Perija parakeet, of which only 30 to 50 individuals likely survive.
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Deforestation and wildfires for agriculture and grazing have denuded much of the birds' habitat, conservationists say. 
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"[A]s more and more remote areas are being settled, the bushbird reminds us how important it is to conserve as much natural habitat as we can," said Paul Salaman of the American Bird Conservancy. 
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"Who knows what wonderful biodiversity is being destroyed before it has had a chance to be discovered?"
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