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The Endangered Andean Flamingo

10,000 Birds

The largest of the Andean flamingos is native to the wetlands and shallow alkaline lakes of the high Andes mountain range, from southern PerĂș to northwestern Argentina and northern Chile. Conservation organizations such as the Flamingo Specialist Group is actively trying to inform the public on the vulnerability of flamingos.

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The Emotional Lives of Animals

4 The Love Of Animals

Nonetheless, they adjusted their behavior to allow Babyl to remain with the group. Sometimes a chimpanzee, usually an adult male, will dance at a waterfall with total abandon. Caledonian crows live in small family groups and youngsters learn to fashion and use tools by watching adults.

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The Glitter in the Green: In Search of Hummingbirds–A Hummer Book Review

10,000 Birds

Dunn starts in Alaska with the goal of seeing Rufous Hummingbird at the northern extreme of its migration (which he does with some effort and a few bear sightings) and ends in Tierra del Fuego, Argentina, “the end of the world,” with the sighting of a Green-backed Firecrown feeding at a firetree in cold drizzly rain.

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Manx Shearwaters

10,000 Birds

As a youngster of 10-weeks old, it is abandoned by its parents and left to fend for itself. The long shifts before swapping duties reduce the number of times that the birds have to run the gauntlet of the gulls and increase their chances of succesfully raising the chick to the age of abandonment.