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Business Birding Basics – part II

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My good friend Hilton and I wanted to go out to Mogri das Cruzes in Brazil to try and see the São Paulo Marsh Antwren. The antwren had been elevated to species level and Hilton is just a sucker for anything Paulista, and besides, who needs a reason to go birding? We glimpsed a lot of presumably good birds flying away from us.

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The Falcon Thief: A Book Review

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September 2017, Cerrado, Brazil. The simple answer is monetary gain, there is a global black market for these items, regardless of the species’ vulnerability for extinction. He interviews breeders about rumors of raptor trafficking and egg smuggling, activities that have supposedly been stopped.

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Combined Beats’ List – July 2016

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Luckily, Redgannet managed to redeem himself with a well-placed trip to Brazil in time to see the Olympic torch stumble through Ubatuba. Submissions from July were shared from Serbia, UK, Brazil, Mexico, USA and Saudi Arabia, bring the total as at July 31st to 1858.

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