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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. Our strategy on each day was to be the first people on the road in the morning. Linhares is a stronghold for all these species.

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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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Protecting the Hyacinth Macaw and the Cerrado

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Last but certainly not least, the macaw suffers along with the other species in its ecosystem from rampant habitat destruction and deforestation. The three major strongholds of the Hyacinth Macaw are Pantanal region encompassing parts of Brazil, Bolivia and Paraguay, the Cerrado in interior, and Brazil’s eastern Amazon Basin region.

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Critically Endangered Birds in Costa Rica- How to See Them, How to Help Them

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Take that same stroll in southern Brazil or other places and extinction is acres of burned rainforest, a walk through plastic decorated neighborhoods devoid of insects, massive forest fires, die-offs of animals, and millions of shellfish being cooked alive , in situ.

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Endangered and Unknown: Black-hooded Antwren

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When they first landed on its shores in the 1500s, the Portuguese discovered a vast stretch of verdant rainforest cloaking much of the Atlantic coast of what would one day be Brazil. Through centuries of deforestation, only 7% of this forest’s original area remains in remnants scattered within the most densely populated region of Brazil.

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Birds of Central America: A Field Guide Review

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However, I do think that there are illustrations here that suffer from washed-out blacks and whites that almost blend into the background. & updated (PUP, 2010); you can find a full list of his publications and listing of number of plates contributed on Dyer’s web site. 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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