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Licking Clay: the Macaws of Tambopata, Peru

10,000 Birds

The primary reasons for the decline of macaws and parrots are many but habitat loss due to logging; clear cutting for crops and cattle ranching; and capture for the pet trade rank among the most threatening. Mar 7th, 2011 at 1:09 pm [.] Volunteers are one of the most important aspects to the project. in south-eastern Peru.

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Africa’s endangered species

10,000 Birds

More than 150 bird species are known to have become extinct over the past 500 years, and many more are estimated to have been driven to extinction before they became known to science. This colony outlived dozens of others as it was protected by the local religious belief that the ibises migrated each year to guide Hajj pilgrims to Mecca.