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Conhecidas como gavião papa-peixe, elas são monitoradas via satélite por pesquisadores da Universidade da Carolina do Norte.
Soon after I began studying birds in the Amazon, twenty-some years back, I got to know a nocturnal call given on moonlit nights, but I couldn’t tell where it came from. It was a long, melancholy whistle, like the sound you hear from a falling bombshell in war movies just before the explosion: ”weeeeeeeeeeooooooooh”.

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A Biologist’s Chronicles of the Amazon

Photo: Cristiano Mariz

Mario Cohn-Haft is Staff Scientist and Curator of Birds of the Brazilian National Institute for Research in the Amazon (INPA) in Manaus. He has studied the natural history of the Brazilian Amazon since 1987.


This column presents the Amazon through the eyes and ears of a biologist specialized in birds. Each story chronicles some aspect of the natural history of the region, ranging from the peculiar lives of particular animal or plant species to commentaries on the challenges and threats to conservation.