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Species of special concern for this ecoregion are the Colombian ebony and the mahogany, among the precious timber; the Cattleya aurea, as this beautiful orchid has suffered from over-collection for more than seventy years; the two species of tapirs present are highly endangered both at the national and international level; the harpy eagle and the blue-billed curassow are also endangered species than still present in the upper Sinú.

Sinú Valley dry forests 2008

The organization has created 15 birding reserves, like the El Paujil Reserve, where birders may be lucky to see the endangered blue-billed curassow, at left.

Guerrilla Birding 2009

The blue-billed curassow Crax alberti, is extinct in the region of the upper Magdalena.

Magdalena Valley dry forests 2007

The very first time I fired my gun I brought down one of the most curious and beautiful of the Malacca birds, the blue-billed gaper (Cymbirhynchus macrorhynchus), called by the Malays the

The Malay Archipelago 2004

Sarah watched Else Sanchez, the robust, swarthy-faced captain who wore an old seaman's jumper and a blue-billed cap.

Give Us Forever Peale, Constance F. 1982

"This pretty dark bird with the black and white and crimson plumage is the rain-bird -- the blue-billed gaper; and this softly-feathered fellow with the bristles at the side of his bill is a trogon."

Nat the Naturalist A Boy's Adventures in the Eastern Seas George Manville Fenn 1870

That blue-billed gaper probably came from Malacca, and the trogon too.

Nat the Naturalist A Boy's Adventures in the Eastern Seas George Manville Fenn 1870

A halt was made here, and a hearty lunch was disposed of; after which, feeling rested and comparatively cool, they started once more, and before long the first shot was had at a blue-billed gaper, a lovely bird, with azure and golden bill, and jetty-black, white, and crimson plumage.

Middy and Ensign George Manville Fenn 1870

Beautiful blue-billed gapers, all claret and black and white, flitted about, catching glossy metallic-looking beetles; little green chatterers, with their crested heads, flew from spray to spray; and tiny sun-birds, in their gorgeous mail of gold and bronze and purple, flew from flower to flower in search of honey.

Middy and Ensign George Manville Fenn 1870

The very first time I fired my gun I brought down one of the most curious and beautiful of the Malacca birds, the blue-billed gaper

The Malay Archipelago, the land of the orang-utan and the bird of paradise; a narrative of travel, with studies of man and nature — Volume 1 Alfred Russel Wallace 1868