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Protecting the Hyacinth Macaw and the Cerrado

10,000 Birds

Mating pairs are faithful for life and share the tasks of raising the young. In the case of the acuri, the birds usually eat those kernels that have already fallen to the ground or that have been ruminated by cattle or wild animals, but they eat bocaiuva nuts straight off the bunches hanging from the trees.

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Birds and Us: A 12,000 Year History from Cave Art to Conservation–A Book Review

10,000 Birds

The book is chiefly about how people have conceptualized and studied birds, but there is an underlying theme, the changing ways in which our Western culture has viewed animals, nature and God. It’s a huge scope for a 338-page book.

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The “Rufa” Red Knot is now protected under the Endangered Species Act

10,000 Birds

In the spring, key staging and stopover areas include Patagonia, Argentina; eastern and northern Brazil; the southeast United States; the Virginia barrier islands; and Delaware Bay. During both the northbound (spring) and southbound (fall) migrations, knots can be found anywhere along the coastal and inland U.S. Birds in Delaware Bay.

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Miracle Babies; Pandas and Leopards

4 The Love Of Animals

Each animal they raise to adulthood is a step away from extinction, with the ultimate challenge to return them to the wild. And on the banks of the Amazon in Brazil, a tamarin expert works to save the tiny primates, which are struggling to survive as bulldozers wipe out their forest homes to make way for new development.

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