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Endangered and Unknown: Red-billed Curassow

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Formerly distributed across parts of southeastern Brazil from the state of Bahia to Rio de Janeiro, this Brazilian endemic suffered dramatic declines due to chronic loss of its lowland Atlantic forest habitat. There are certain birding experiences that stay with you forever. And that was it.

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Parrots: Brazil’s Colorful Avian Clowns

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Second, they occupy an astonishing variety of habitats from temperate Araucaria forests in Chile to alpine scree in New Zealand to seasonally flooded rainforests in Brazil to rocky sea cliffs in Australia. Brazil, in particular, is the country with the largest number of parrot species in the world with approximately 84 species.

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Birds of Central America: A Field Guide Review

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Nevertheless, it necessary to combine field experience with museum experience to create a vivid and accurate image of a species. However, I do think that there are illustrations here that suffer from washed-out blacks and whites that almost blend into the background. In this specific case, I have to go with the latter.

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What Exactly is a Pardalote?

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Is a Coua a bird or a city in Brazil? They do need older trees, which host more lerps, and they can suffer due to some land use types. But there are types of birds that many European or American readers will not only have never seen but also not have much idea what it is or how it relates to birds in general. What, exactly, is a koel?

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Flight to Freedom

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With these lions there were clear welfare and public safety issues, When dealing with lions there are not only welfare and public safety issues, we are therefore delighted to be working with PAWS who have enormous experience with big cats and a reputation for setting the highest standards in animal care.”.

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