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Parrot, Parrot, Parrakeet, Hummingbird

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By tagging the Parrot and monitoring the area with remote cameras, scientists hope to learn more about this species and how to keep it safe. And if your life list includes Bahama Woodstar , you might want to get back out into the field. The bird is so rare and elusive that it was thought to be extinct. Rally Parakeet FTW!

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Petrel Paradise

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Birders who have been to California might be familiar with the latter two, indeed we would be close to the Poor Knights Islands later in the day, the site of the only breeding colony of Buller’s Shearwaters in the whole world. One birder from Australia even got his lifer Red-crowned Parakeet ! I personally had a great if exhausting day.

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A World on the Wing: The Global Odyssey of Migratory Birds–A Book Review

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192) from the timing of seasons to the ferocity of weather to the shape of breeding, wintering, and stopover habitat to even the size of birds themselves. Climate change looms large over all migration research, it “is reshaping every single thing about migration” (p. It is often hard to be positive. by Scott Weidensaul.

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