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Want to Go Bird Banding in Amazonian Peru?

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I recently heard from Chris Kirkby, the Managing Director and Principal Investigator at Asociacion Fauna Forever , a Peruvian not-for-profit organisation based in Lima and Puerto Maldonado, about a series of bird-banding workshops being held this June and November in the rainforests of Tambopata in south-eastern Peru. Thanks for visiting!

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A Question of Migration

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It turns out that humans without compasses make no use of magnetic fields.) They conclude, provisionally, … that, perhaps apart from a capacity for night-time compass orientation, there is little evidence for deeply rooted coadapted trait complexes that could make up such a migratory syndrome, is suggested.

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