This is bird note.

It's about 7 a.m. and I'm jumping in the car in Kanto, Brazil to head up to try to get some recordings of Ereepay Mannequin,

critically endangered bird.

Garrett Vin is a sound recordist for the Cornell Lab of Ornithology, and the bird he's looking for is a stunner,

about the size of a chunky sparrow, but white, with inky dark wing tips and tail feathers and a deep blood red hood.

The Ara repay mannequins critically endangered,

in part because it lives mainly in an incredibly small area of Northeastern's Ereepae Plateau.

So literally I can see the entire species range from a hilltop here.

It's along the slopes and usually associated with springs.

There's a lot of natural springs here and it supports the vegetation they like and the foods they like and

the females like to nest literally with their nest hanging over these small creeks in the tropical vegetation.

Besides it being such a limited range, there's also a very high demand for this water so a lot of the springs have been

degraded and a lot of them have most of their water extracted from them so

protecting these last springs that support these birds is critical for their survival.

Which is partly why recording the Aeropae Mannequin is such a big deal.

For Bird Note, I'm Mary McCann. You're going to.