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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.

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Feeding Wild Birds in America: Culture, Commerce & Conservation: A Book Review by a Curious Bird Feeder

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I also enjoyed reading the company histories of familiar brands like Duncraft, Kaytee, Droll Yankee, and Wagner all of which started as family companies, some as offshoots of other businesses, some as the result of clever inventions. The story of Duncraft is a good example. The writers have created a good book. If you are one of those 58.2

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Gulls Simplified: A Gull Book Review

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Both authors are experienced workshop educators at CMBO and birding festivals around the country. Jessie Barry writes that “with practice, experts can identify nearly all gulls by size and shape alone” in her 2010 article for the Cornell Lab of Ornithology.

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The Sibley Guide to Birds, Second Edition: A Review of an Iconic Guide in a New Edition

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My first birding instructor, Starr Saphir, started off the Introduction to Birding workshop by having us describe a bird without using color.) side of the border one time in 2010. Birds are arranged in taxonomic order, organized into sections based on families. We look at size, structure, proportion. (My Not included.