It flew into the net, we lowered the net, put it in our caring box and took it back and Will Beebe finally got to see a bearded Bellbird close up. That was followed by quite a lot of interest to the New York Times, which brought a lot of people to the World of Birds, that was before the World of Birds to the old birdhouse to see the bird and a lot more interest in the bird collection and Jeffrey Hammond a writer for The New Yorker characterize and summarize my whole trip by saying, mustache curator catches bearded bellbird after hair racing chase. Now catching James flamingos was a totally different proposition. There are six farms of flamingos. Back in the 50s, it was thought that the sixth farm, the beautiful little James Flamingo had become extinct. None had been seen for 70 years. It was found in the high Andes, very high Andes. In the meantime, a group of Chilean ornithologist had been searching for the bird, they reported in 1958 that they had found a nesting colony in Laguna Colorada in Bolivia at an altitude of 14,200 feet.
