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To Tick or Not to Tick – Exotic Birding in Miami

10,000 Birds

The USA’s only truly indigenous parrot was wiped out by a combination of factors, although direct persecution through hunting seems to have been the major contributor. Today, if you want to see parrots in the USA you need look no further than Miami. But its not just parrots that are doing well in their adopted city.

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I and the Bird: What is a Vulture?

10,000 Birds

Turkey Vulture on Little Miami River – Kelly Riccetti, The Red and the Peanut. Vulture Hunts Down and Ravages Sea Turtles – Dale Forbes, 10,000 Birds. Thailand’s Adopt a Vulture Program – YC Wee, Bird Ecology Study Group. Kings of the Sky – Karen, The Greenbelt. Black Vulture, Coragyps atratus.