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Licking Clay: the Macaws of Tambopata, Peru

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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. These threats are further exacerbated by the naturally low reproductive rates of these cavity-nesting birds.

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Salon des Refusés (part 1)

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While it is laudable to point out the plight of homeless woodpeckers, this is hardly the right subject for an upbeat bird photo contest. That is an easy trick – capture a bird in a seemingly human pose, just to attract sympathy for the bird. Cattle Egret (Nanhui, China). My wife tells me this all the time.

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Birds of Pantanal

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Unfortunately this place, like all other biodiverse places in the world, is being destroyed and threaten by us, the needy greedy humans. The contrast between biodiversity and human destruction is in plain sight everywhere you go! It is an eye opener which every birder must see before it its gone.

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Birding while Holiday Shopping

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Native species have also managed to make a living in the newly created urban jungle habitat, including Northern Mockingbird , Cattle Egret , Mourning Dove , and Fish Crow. If enough trees are present, Blue Jay and Red-bellied Woodpecker become distinct possibilities.

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Birding Kota Kinabalu, Borneo: Rice Paddies

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Another study provides some hope to human males who think of themselves as good karaoke singers. He is the great ascetic, the master of fertility, the master of poison and medicine, and Lord of Cattle. Why is there a Lord of Cattle, and what exactly is his job description?

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Combined Beats’ List – September

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Others, by their own admission, are Luddites and believe that the pinnacle of human technological achievement was reached on the day that man first bound a notebook in moleskin. Cattle Egret – Bubulcus ibis. Lewis’s Woodpecker – Melanerpes lewis. Red-headed Woodpecker – Melanerpes erythrocephalus.

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Combined Beats’ list

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Others, by their own admission, are Luddites and believe that the pinnacle of human technological achievement was reached on the day that man first bound a notebook in moleskin. Cattle Egret – Bubulcus ibis. Lewis’s Woodpecker – Melanerpes lewis. Red-headed Woodpecker – Melanerpes erythrocephalus.

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