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A review of the birdcentric novel “Accidentals” (the title of which is in the plural for a reason)

10,000 Birds

Gaines, notwithstanding that the story (1) takes place in the Uruguay of 1999, with plenty of commentary on the Uruguayan political scene of that time, (2) is narrated by a bird illustrator who identifies the birds he sees only by their common Spanish names, and (3) flashes back to the use of torture by South American juntas in the 1970’s.

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Lockdown Serendipity

10,000 Birds

The Lesser Yellow-headed Vulture is a mostly solitary vulture, found from Uruguay to Mexico. Indeed, it is a bird that supposedly should not even have been in the state of Guerrero, much less in the city of Acapulco. There’s something about that face. In contrast, TurkeyVulture heads are nothing but red.

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Exploring the Uncharted Bird World

10,000 Birds

401-600 sp: Honduras, Guatemala, Guyana, Suriname and French Guyana, Chile, Paraguay, Uruguay; the Sahel countries (Africa), Namibia and Botswana; Central Asian countries and Cambodia. Shown as a list, it looks like this: Less than 200 bird species: Antarctica; oceanic islands. 801-1000 sp. – 1201-1400 sp: Venezuela; China.

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Red-legged Seriema

10,000 Birds

Red-legged Seriema, Cariama cristata , can be seen in Brazil and Uruguay and overlap with the Black-legged Seriema in Northern Argentina and Paraguay. 10,000 Clicks: Photo-galleries and ID Features.

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Great Great Grebe.

10,000 Birds

From southern Brazil on the east coast, it extends down through Uruguay and Argentina as far as the cape. The Great Grebe , Podiceps major , is a bird of South America where it frequents large waters and coastline on both sides of the continent. The nominate is found to the west in Chile with a separate population in NW Peru.

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Is the White-naped Xenopsaris Migratory? or The Limits of Citizen Science

10,000 Birds

I wondered about whether that could be extrapolated for the region (Santa Fe) or even the whole southern part of its range (Argentina and Uruguay). A couple of articles suggested it may be migratory, in the southern part of its range, but then I found one recent Argentine article that stated categorically that it was in one site.

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I’m Not Hanging Noodles On Your Ears

4 The Love Of Animals

When dogs were tied with sausages>a very long time ago (Spanish, Uruguay). To put a cat over oneself>to feign ignorance (Japanese). To make a cat’s laundry>to wash superficially (German). Like a dog in a canoe>to be very nervous (Spanish, Puerto Rico). To hang all the dogs>to blame someone else (Russian).