10,000 Birds

MARCH 7, 2011

Many thanks to Jason Kopp for the photos above taken during last year’s courses held at Explorer’s Inn Tags: banding , peru , tambopata • Camping tents - Check out our pop up tents , family tents , and more! I worked as a guide and on macaw projects in Tambopata in 2001 and 2002 and the diversity is simply astounding.

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Peru 2011 Deer Birds 201

10,000 Birds

MARCH 21, 2011

In fact, the bird is the fifth recorded in the history of the state,* and the first spotted in the Empire State since 2001. from left to right Fred, Mike, Isaac, Andrew, Gene (in back), Tom Though it was an absurdly long trip and the ratio of birding to driving was not ideal the twitch was well worth it. Wicked, right?

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New York Woodpeckers Jordan 2011 199

10,000 Birds

MAY 19, 2011

All of this leads to a longer life list, which is, after all, the entire point of bridwatching, right? Itcher birds, migratory members of the tern family. It turns out that humans without compasses make no use of magnetic fields.) Perhaps that will be the subject of a future post in this space. __ 1 Fransson, et al, 2001.

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Research Humane Compassion New York 197