to detect the species. Brief surveys in February 2007 and December 2011 also failed to detect the species. In March 2015, the blue-bearded helmetcrest was rediscovered by researchers from the foundation ProAves while documenting fires set by local farmers. Though the species' entire range is nominally protected in Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta National Park, Indigenous people regularly burn the páramo to produced cattle pasture and collect Libanothamnus occultus for firewood. References blue-bearded helmetcrest Birds of the Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta Endemic birds of Colombia Critically endangered animals Critically endangered biota of South America blue-bearded helmetcrest blue-bearded helmetcrest blue-bearded helmetcrest