By the official count, there are something like thirteen hundred species of birds in the Amazon, but Cohn-Haft thinks there are actually a good many more, because people have relied too much on features like size and plumage and not paid enough attention to sound.
Not long after I I met up with Mario Cohn-Haft in Manaus, a team of researchers he was part of announced that it had found 15 new species of birds in the Amazon, including the crooked-beaked woodcreeper, which has a beak shaped like a dough hook, and the flat-beaked sucunduri, a small, greenish flycatcher.
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