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Yellow-breasted bush-finch        Images © Mark A. Chappell

Yellow-breasted bush-finches are large, colorful cloudforest birds that are hard to see.   This one was hanging round one of the buildings at the Wayqecha Research Station, at about 3000 m elevation on the Manu Road in southeastern Peru.

  • Canon 7D; 500 mm IS lens plus 1.4X converter, fill-in flash (2012)