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Licking Clay: the Macaws of Tambopata, Peru

10,000 Birds

The experience is one of the ornithological highlights in the world. The primary reasons for the decline of macaws and parrots are many but habitat loss due to logging; clear cutting for crops and cattle ranching; and capture for the pet trade rank among the most threatening. Want to Go Bird Banding in Amazonian Peru?

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Birding Shanghai in July 2022

10,000 Birds

” I have a scientific background myself, and I guess some experiments on animals may sometimes be justifiable, but others just leave me disgusted, such as this one. But it is all for science, I hear them say. Swinhoe’s White-eye was just promoted to the rank of a full species in 2018. but they do. One puzzle solved.

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