There’s great news from a remote mountain range in northern Colombia. A bird species new to science has been discovered!

The Yariguíes Brush-Finch (Atlapetes latinuchus yariguierum), a large and colorful finch with black, yellow and red plumage, first described in the June 2006 issue of the scientific journal Bulletin of the British Ornithologists Club, is gaining new and acknowledged notice throughout the zoological world this week. According to a recent news release from Conservation International, “the bird is named for the Yariguíes indigenous people who formerly inhabited the mountain range where the bird was found.”
“The description of a new bird is a rare event in modern times,” said Blanca Huertas of Natural History Museum and University College London. “However, this is just the first of several new species that we will be describing from the Yariguíes Mountains. In my own specialist group, butterflies, we have found several new taxa that will be described soon.”

The discoverers and descriptors of the new Yariguíes bird are Thomas Donegan y Blanca Huertas.

For Spanish readers of Cryptomundo, here’s more information from ProAves Colombia.