Over the years, some have asked me why I keep doing 3D birds. Apart from my love of my avian friends (especially LBBs- "Little Brown Birds"), there's a simpler explanation that David Attenborough put best... "Everyone likes birds. What wild creature is more accessible to our eyes and ears, as close to us and everyone in the world, as universal as a bird?" About today's LBB.... The endangered Boa Nova Tapaculo is endemic to eastern Brazil in southeastern Bahía and is found in the undergrowth of humid montane evergreen forests, specifically in dark and densely vegetated ravines often with bamboo. It is mainly insectivorous. There are 1,000-2,499 mature individuals with a decreasing population trend. It is generally uncommon. It was discovered as recently as 1993, and formerly described in 2014. It is a restricted-range species, confined to just 4600 km², in two disjunct ranges of mountains, with an overall population of perhaps fewer than 2,500 individuals estimated at the time of the species’ description, and which is believed to be declining. It has been recorded in both Boa Nova and Serra das Lontras National Parks, but more than 40% of the species’ potential Area of Occupancy is unprotected and suffering ongoing pressure from deforestation and logging. The secondary areas are being converted to pasture through burning, and the species’ apparently highly specialized habitat requirements render it potentially vulnerable to environmental change caused by future climate alteration.