#The Auk

Author: Jessica Leigh Hester / Source: Atlas Obscura It all started in April 2017, when Francisco Sornoza-Molina, an ecologist at the National Institute for Biodiversity in Quito, Ecuador, was wandering the alpine plateaus (called “paramos”) of Cerro de Arcos, a rock formation in the country’s

Author: Jennifer Leman / Source: Science News A new hummingbird species has been discovered high in the Ecuadorian Andes, but in numbers so low the bird may already be critically endangered. Named for its cobalt-colored feathers, the blue-throated hillstar hummingbird nibbles on insects and