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A Photographic Guide to the Wildlife of Seychelles by Chris Mason-Parker

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The author, Chris Mason-Parker, has lived in Seychelles since 2009, where he is an active member of the conservation community. He is the author of Underwater Guide to Seychelles (2015), Underwater Eden (2019) and Reef Fishes of Seychelles (2021). On the other hand, the isolation makes for those huge seabird colonies.

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The Brown and Peruvian Pelicans

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Both pelicans have a very specialized foraging strategy that depends on abundant fish near the surface. They dive-plunge to scoop-in fish in schools with its long bill and expandable throat pouch. Changes in fish abundance and location near the surface has caused catastrophic die-offs in the Peruvian Pelican.

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What is the State Bird of Louisiana?

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These dives – for small schooling fish – can begin at a height of 65 feet , and after they have made their catch they must let the water slowly drain from their bills. They are easy to see along the Pacific, Atlantic, and Gulf Coasts, soaring through the air or during their spectacular aerial dives into the water.

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Rancho Naturalista Lodge, Costa Rica, or in the Land of Coffee and Chocolate

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In a rock-garden in the middle of the river, one Fasciated Tiger-Heron was fishing, with both Amazon and Green Kingfishers nearby. The subpopulation in northern Costa Rica and southern Nicaragua numbered 834 individuals in 2009, but was estimated at less than 200 individuals, equating to c. 130 mature individuals, in 2019 (Monge et al.

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Pelican Release with International Bird Rescue

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Since 2009, International Bird Rescue has released over 1,100 California Brown Pelicans with blue bands from their wildlife hospitals! Such was the case with the two juvenile Brown Pelicans I was chosen to release back into the wild. You may notice the conspicuous blue plastic band on this pelican’s leg.

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An Osprey Nest and The Migratory Bird Treaty Act

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This is a poor photo I took of this pair’s nest back in 2009. We have been assured by the California Department of Fish & Wildlife (CDFW) that they are watching this nest also. The new nest is still but a ghost of what the old nest looked like.

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Is The Hooded Grebe About To Go Extinct?

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During the breeding seasons 2009/2010 and 2010/2011 we monitored 251 lakes on the main plateaus of Santa Cruz province, southern Patagonia, Argentina, where the entire population of Hooded Grebes spends the breeding season. We only observed 6 breeding colonies, two in 2009/2010 and four in 2010/ 2011, totalling 242 nesting attempts.

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