10,000 Birds
MARCH 1, 2017
It’s a feeding frenzy in southern Argentina, as one million-plus Magellanic Penguins descend on Punta Tombo’s beaches due to an unusual glut of sardines and anchovies. Scientists ponder the feasibility of genetically engineering chickens to lay the eggs of endangered bird species. So crazy it just might work?
10,000 Birds
SEPTEMBER 10, 2015
It is found mature humid forest in Amazonia, the humid foothill of the Andes, dry and deciduous forests, second growth, coffee plantations, and just about any type of standing forest from Mexico to Argentina. Many of the old world cuckoos are brood parasites, laying their eggs in other birds nest. Photo: Francesco Veronesi (Flickr).
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10,000 Birds
DECEMBER 18, 2014
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. Perhaps the most important threat to the Red Knot is climate change.
10,000 Birds
NOVEMBER 5, 2015
The largest of the Andean flamingos is native to the wetlands and shallow alkaline lakes of the high Andes mountain range, from southern Perú to northwestern Argentina and northern Chile. Egg harvesting to sell as food was intensive then, with thousands taken annually from the breeding colonies in Chile.
10,000 Birds
AUGUST 20, 2013
They breed on a number of basaltic lakes in southwestern Argentina, and it is not entirely clear where they all winter, but some wintering Hooded Grebes have been found outside their breeding range (and a few none-breeding birds have been found year round at two locations on the Atlantic, apparently).
10,000 Birds
SEPTEMBER 25, 2013
Finally, the exotic Island snail occurs in Argentina, Brazil and Bolivia where they are consumed by Snail Kites there (the Snail Kite occur throughout South America, the Everglade Snail Kite is a sub-species). Exotic apple snail (left) and native apple snail (right) Photo: The Pomacea Project.
10,000 Birds
SEPTEMBER 7, 2011
Invercargill The bottom of New Zealand and you’d be forgiven for thinking the end of the world is where you’ll be heading if you’re following Argentina, Scotland, Romania or Georgia. A good place to see the enigmatic Kokako. If you can prise yourself away from the spas be sure to head for the Kiwi Encounter Centre.
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