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Birding the Gilpin Trace, Main Ridge Forest Reserve, Tobago

10,000 Birds

When was the last time you birded in the oldest forest preserve in the western hemisphere? Since 1776 it has been protected land and the biodiversity there speaks volumes to what nearly 250 years of conservation can do. It took Jenyns eleven years to convince the parliament that this was indeed a valid endeavour.

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Photo Essay: Green-rumped Parrotlets from Egg to Adult

10,000 Birds

Nick Sly, a friend of 10,000 Birds who writes intermittently at the thoroughly-recommended Biological Ramblings , is an ornithologist who graduated not so long ago from Cornell only to be cast out into the real world where he keeps a wry eye on all things biological! The youngest bird in this clutch is only two or three days old.

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