This is Bird Note.

Near the city of Krato in northeastern Brazil lives a critically endangered little bird.

The Ereepay Mannequin.

It's a little larger than a sparrow and it lives on the slopes of a very small area in the

Arreepae Plateau. And along these slopes it's pretty heavily populated, so almost all the

recordings that exist of this species have dogs or

roosters in the background. So Garrett Vin of the Cornell Lab of Ornithologies on a

mission to capture a clean recording of this bird.

All right, so I'm getting my gear together to head off on this trail.

I'm going to pack a bag full of camera gear.

Important things are sunblock always. I have a parabolic microphone and then a

stereo microphone set up for recording. A little notebook here. There's quite a few highly venomous snakes here. So I've got these snake-proof gators that I'll zip up to my ankle.

All right, so I'm in an area where I heard a mannequin singing up ahead of me,

so I'm gonna drop my gear here and get my parabola hooked up to start trying to record.

I'll kind of stealthily move through the under. The critically endangered Ereepae Mannequin recorded by Garrett Vin of the Cornell Lab of Ornithology.

For Bird Note, I'm Mary McCann.