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Photo Essay: Green-rumped Parrotlets from Egg to Adult

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Nick wrote a guest post on Forpus passerinus and the Ornithologists of Masaguaral which was full of passion, humor, and insight into his work while on location in Venezuela. You don’t really know a bird until you’ve studied it on its breeding grounds. Here is a little forpling on day one. The Auk 108: 863-871.

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15 expat-friendly countries for a birder to move to

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This map shows the distribution of the World’s bird species, based on overlying the breeding and wintering ranges of all known species. Venezuela (1365 / 1383). It makes me think what is the meaning of life, the universe and everything? Why am I here? And where all those birds are? Map by BirdLife International. Kenya (1034 / 1153).

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The Birds of Trinidad and Tobago: Two Guides, One Book Review

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Even during the breeding season the birds appear to be quite unwary of humans. Robin Restall is principal author of the two-volume Birds of Northern South America and was executive director of the Phelps Ornithological Collection, Caracas, Venezuela. He is now a director of the Phelps Foundation.

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The Newest Beat

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His summers during college were spent as a biological technician, monitoring breeding birds for Point Reyes Bird Observatory in Eastern Oregon, and also five seasons in Black Hills, SD, working for the Rocky Mountain Bird Observatory.

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The Fate of the Florida Anis

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Interestingly, perhaps explaining their widespread distribution that includes many islands, I have observed anis soaring in Venezuela much like a vulture or raptor. According to the Florida Breeding Bird Atlas, the first confirmed breeding record was in Miami in July of 1938. Diet is composed mostly of large insects.

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Hilty’s Birds of Colombia field guide review

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Also, the distributions of subspecies breeding in the region are clearly mapped. Also, the distributions of subspecies breeding in the region are clearly mapped. Over 2000 full-colour distribution maps for all regularly occurring species are seamlessly blended next to bird illustrations.

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