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Enjoy Innovative Electronic Music = Help Endangered Birds

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Do you want to help endangered birds? How about helping with conservation of cool tropical birds by listening to innovative electronic music? The brainchild of music producer, bird lover, and environmentalist Robin Perkins, this digital album is his second guide to birdsong.

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Birding Chaco at JV Gonzles – Trip Report

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Continued from: Calilegua National Park Birding Trip Report. This is a very hot and dry region known as El Chaco where many interesting bird species can be found. Gonzales the greater the size of soybean farming fields and our expectations to see birds on this road trip had quickly died and turned into a boring flat-land ride.

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Swarovski NL Pure – the Sexiest Binoculars Ever

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ELs are fat around the waist, their weight is more pronounced towards the front end, and when you raise your fingers, letting ELs rest only against your thumbs, they start falling down, front end first. And when you raise your fingers, well balanced NLs happily rest against your thumbs, not falling to either side.

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Cafayete to Cachi – Fantastic scenery but few birds

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Continued from: Birding Calchaqui valleys in northern Argentina. We came across a pair of Cliff Flycatchers and also the Rufous Hornero which would be the last bird for this day. Trips Birding Argentina Cachi Cafeyete Quebrada de Las Flechas' Cliff Flycatcher. Rufous Hornero. Colorful Mountains. To be continued.

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The world is getting smaller

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Our range of destinations is reduced as required and this week I said a fond farewell to Buenos Aires , Argentina. I first visited here as a nascent birder in 1996 and added marvellous birds such as Southern Screamer , Spot-flanked Gallinule and White-tipped Plant-cutter. Adios Argentina. But what goes around, comes around.

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Why Red-ruffed Fruitcrow?

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Tropical birding demands tropical birds, those families and genera unique to their latitudes rather than shared via migration across various climate zones. My participation in the Proexport Colombia Avistamiento de Aves familiarity trip brought me to the Otun-Quimbaya Reserve for a day of absolutely thrilling tropical birding.

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

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migration corridors from Argentina in the Southern tip of South America to Canada. 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. Birds in Delaware Bay. Photo: Gregory Breese-USFWS.