The tiny, beautiful Chilean woodstar is a hummingbird endemic to Chile and Peru. While it has always had a limited population distribution, it was once locally abundant. The 1970s marked a steep ...

The Esmeraldas woodstar was thought to be extinct until it was rediscovered in 1990 — after not being sighted since 1912. In 1991, the International Council for Bird Preservation petitioned the U.S.