This endemic bird from Robinson Crusoe Island was chosen by citizen vote to represent our native fauna during the 2021 event.
The red male and the green female, endemic to Robinson Crusoe Island and critically endangered due to invasive alien species and habitat modification. If you are an inhabitant of the Juan Fernández Archipelago, you immediately guessed who we are talking about, and you are one of the few people who has had the opportunity to see this rare species of hummingbird.
The Juan Fernández Firecrown (Sephanoides fernandensis) was the most voted species in the 2021 Chilean Fauna Day, obtaining more than 30% of the votes and taking a win over very charismatic species such as the Kodkod or Güiña (Leopardus guigna), the Patagonian Bumblebee (Bombus dahlbomii) and the Darwin’s Frog (Rhinoderma darwinii). The election of the Chilean Fauna Day ambassador was characterized by having only candidates that had participated in a previous years that had not obtained first place yet.
On this occasion, and due to the Coronavirus pandemic, the event that was once held in person at the Museum of Natural History in the city of Santiago, was now held exclusively online and with a record of participation, reaching more than 25,000 people and integrating civil society organizations from all over the country.
During this event, organized by the Jane Goodall Chile Institute, progress in the conservation of the Loa Water Frog (Telmatobius dankoi) was highlighted, a species that was chosen to be the ambassador during 2020. To learn more about the Institute Jane Goodall Chile and about the Chilean Fauna Day, we invite you to visit the website www.janegoodall.cl
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