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News Release 11-125
Tropical Birds Return to Harvested Rainforest Areas in Brazil
Bird species thought extinct came back to the forests
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![Photo of a White-plumed Antbird.](/news/mmg/media/images/extinct_birds1_f.jpg)
The White-plumed Antbird has gone "extinct," then returned, several times in the forest.
Credit: Philip Stouffer/LSU
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![Photo of the edge of a forest fragment.](/news/mmg/media/images/extinct_birds2_f.jpg)
View from the edge of a forest fragment; birds regularly move through to recolonize the fragments.
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![Photo of a hand holding a Black-banded Woodcreeper by its feet.](/news/mmg/media/images/extinct_birds3_f.jpg)
The Black-banded Woodcreeper is unlikely to survive in fragments, this one notwithstanding.
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![Photo of an abandoned pasture.](/news/mmg/media/images/extinct_birds4_f1.jpg)
This pasture has been abandoned; its regrowth will allow some birds to return to the forest.
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![Photo of a hand holding a Black-throated Antshrike by its feet.](/news/mmg/media/images/extinct_birds5_f.jpg)
The Black-throated Antshrike may not be able to recolonize fragments of the forest.
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