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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: 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.

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Birder, Defined

10,000 Birds

to South America that has brown shoulders and conspicuous white markings on the rump and tail”) notes that it was named for the American naturalist Edward Harris. Larger feathers consist of a shaft (rachis) bearing branches (barbs) which bear smaller branches (barbules).

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The complete guide to Dodo relatives, living and dead

10,000 Birds

As members of the raphine tribe spread out and diversified, taking on strange and sometimes flightless forms on small islands, many lost their ability to adapt to new competitors and predators — notably, humans and the animals that travel with us. The bird’s skeleton bears similarities to New Guinea’s much smaller (!)