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Visiting Bird Service: Avian “Pet Therapy” Cheers Seniors

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But Kasia has kept the bird-therapy program going with other rescued birds, including ducks and chickens that are often surrendered or abandoned once Easter’s over. She also brings the birds to schools and other community groups. The seniors get a positive experience from interacting with the birds.

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Visit the Manu Road with InkaNatura Travel

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InkaNatura Travel is the only leading tour operator in Peru owned by Peru Verde, a non-profit conservation group. In groups of two and three the big Red-and-green Macaws come flapping in, landing in the treetops as they eye the main stage below — the eroded clay banks. We also have local offices in Cusco and Puerto Maldonado.

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Grouse in PA, Grouse in Costa Rica

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Grouse are the chickens we would love to lay eyes on. Groups them by family too and by their shape” His extra long arm extended and passed me that precious book. One such surprising experience happened with grouse. “Check it out!” Wood-warblers lived in those Appalachian forests, many of them!

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Winter Wanderland

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Large groups of Hooded Merganser , Redhead , Franklin’s Gull , and other floaters were easily spotted. Usually not one to chicken out, the worried and concerned looks on their faces told me not to ignore the advice. Late summer 2023 the lakes and ponds had been empty, presumably because the ducks and geese were moulting.

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How Birds Evolve: What Science Reveals about Their Origin, Lives, and Diversity: A Book Review by a Non-Science Person

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He is also a serious birder (and a birding friend), and his birding observations and adventures are used throughout the book to introduce evolutionary questions and illustrate the mental interplay between personal experience and scientific curiosity. The book is smartly organized into 12 chapters. This is a book that requires attention.

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How The Bird Got Its Beak

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Within species, or closely related groups of species, beaks vary by small amounts that result in important adaptive fine tuning, as we see in the Grand’s studies of the Galapagos Finches; Beak related behavior is at the cutting edge of survival for many bird species. The chickens were done in before hatching. Here’s the thing.

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Birding from a Hide

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When such a company runs a nature reserve, it is a bit like having a fox to watch over your chickens. And, of course, there was a group of youngsters barbecuing. After that experience, I stopped complaining about their hides, realising that they are as good as they ever will be. More or less, a proper picnic site. And so did I.

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