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Untamed Americas

4 The Love Of Animals

In it we get to see some of the amazing places in the wild areas of North America, Central America and South America. Untamed Americas: Mountains. In a rarely filmed event, see newly awakened black bears go on the hunt for newborn elk calves. Untamed Americas: Coasts. Untamed Americas: Forests.

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Licking Clay: the Macaws of Tambopata, Peru

10,000 Birds

Found throughout South America in ever-dwindling numbers these extremely beautiful birds – threatened by habitat destruction and collection for the wild bird trade – are often difficult to see and hard to find. The experience is one of the ornithological highlights in the world. Want to Go Bird Banding in Amazonian Peru?

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Birder, Defined

10,000 Birds

Duck : “any of various swimming birds (family Anatidae, the duck family) in which the neck and legs are short, the feet typically webbed, the bill often broad and flat, and the sexes usually different from each other in plumage.”. Some entries include etymology (word history) information.

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The complete guide to Dodo relatives, living and dead

10,000 Birds

Not, as Linneaus thought, an ostrich, nor even, as later scientists concluded, a distant cousin of pigeons deserving of family rank, it was an honest-to-goodness pigeon, deeply embedded within the family Columbidae. The bird’s skeleton bears similarities to New Guinea’s much smaller (!)