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Photo Essay: Green-rumped Parrotlets from Egg to Adult

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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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Trinidad’s Coastal Forest

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Running end-to-end across the northernmost section of the island, Trinidad’s Northern Range is the final outcrop of the mighty Andes after it bends eastward through Venezuela. The archetypical rainforest bird – Channel-billed Toucan. It almost looks as if the bird is underwater! Green-backed Trogon. Guianan Trogon.

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Selling Birds Short: A Heretical View Of Avian Intelligence

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A profound and deep understanding of birds is hard to complain about. Despite the vacant look in the eye of a Rock Pigeon , birds are not stupid…they cannot afford to be, or else they wouldn’t be here now. And the ultimate question, the one we may never know the answer to… what is a bird thinking ?

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