What was left of the Alagoas

The Alagoas foliage-gleaner is an extinct tropical bird, whose feathers had a reddish-brown for camouflaging into the compost of their dense rainforests. Their small, slim body helps them be aerodynamically acrobatic. The bird was last known only from Murici and Frei Caneca of Brazil, in South America in 2018. Brazil’s equatorial location supports humid, tropical rainforests, but climate change, drought, and deforestation are expected to make the region hotter and drier, potentially turning into a savanna. If the alagoas foliage-gleaner species had to adapt to the new environment, they would require more fat, longer legs and wingspan to be able to forage through wide, flat, dry, and heated terrain especially the tall grass. Their behaviors would change drastically in order to adapt to the new environment such as relying on their flocks more frequently for maximizing foraging, closely relying on areas with adequate hydration like lakes or ponds, and more.