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MARCH 7, 2011

By Mike • March 7, 2011 • 5 comments Tweet Share I bet you do! If so, learn more about 9 days in Peruvian paradise banding birds and contributing to both research and conservation ! Duncan Mar 7th, 2011 at 5:15 pm I can imagine being there. Want to Go Bird Banding in Amazonian Peru? That could be you!

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MARCH 18, 2011

UNLESS that is you get yourself down to the internationally-renowned Tambopata Research Centre in southern Peru where literally hundreds of macaws (and other parrots) congregate around a 50 meter high clay bank. The clay consumed at the colpa contains chemicals that bind with these ingested alkaloids thus neutralizing their toxicity.

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 14, 2011

By Julie • March 14, 2011 • 18 comments Tweet Share ACTION ALERT! Tomorrow, MARCH 15, 2011, is the deadline for public comment on a proposal to hunt sandhill cranes in Kentucky. For my new book, due out in 2012 from Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, I’ve been researching sandhill crane hunting. Not sure what that is.

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