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Licking Clay: the Macaws of Tambopata, Peru

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UNLESS that is you get yourself down to the internationally-renowned Tambopata Research Centre in southern Peru where literally hundreds of macaws (and other parrots) congregate around a 50 meter high clay bank. A range of animals come to satisfy their need for salt or the soothing effects of the clay along the river banks of the region.

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Soccer Player Kicks Owl on Field?

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But the disregard for animals that leads to teams using a live owl as a mascot…and having so little control over it that it got onto the field during play? Tags: Asides • Camping tents - Check out our pop up tents , family tents , and more! Video and desultory apology here. Though it is certainly bad news that the U.S.

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What is the National Bird of Denmark?

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The Numbat is the animal emblem. Fish & Wildlife Service expects sea levels to rise due to global warming, swamping beaches on which Snowy Plovers currently nest, it is good news that the number of beaches proposed for protection as Snowy Plover nesting habitat has doubled. Though it is certainly bad news that the U.S.

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Leucistic Ruddy Duck Oxyura jamaicensis

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Leucism “is a condition characterized by reduced pigmentation in animals and humans.&# Fish & Wildlife Service expects sea levels to rise due to global warming, swamping beaches on which Snowy Plovers currently nest, it is good news that the number of beaches proposed for protection as Snowy Plover nesting habitat has doubled.

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Stalking a Kiwi Icon

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They are commonest where they are intensively protected and managed, but these places are often remote and hard to visit. Searching for kiwi is unlike spotlighting that I’ve done while looking for nocturnal animals in the past. In addition to this kiwi are nocturnal. Though it is certainly bad news that the U.S.

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Conserving the Future: Bold Bird Ideas

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The results will inform a vision document to be adopted in July 2011 at a national conference to guide the NWR system for wildlife protection into the next decade and beyond. Tags: national wildlife refuge , north america , parks • Camping tents - Check out our pop up tents , family tents , and more!

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Meet Suliformes, one of the newest orders of birds

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Ringer Tags: cormorants , frigatebirds , genetics , taxonomy and systematics • Camping tents - Check out our pop up tents , family tents , and more! Another, hands against the animal’s vast side, said… March On Into Spring – I and The Bird #146 Mar 17th, 2011 at 12:37 am [.]

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