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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. Getting intimate with a species over the course of the breeding cycle is one of the more rewarding aspects of birding, and field research too.

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

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A little bit of research when I got home unraveled the ways of publishers here and in Great Britain. Do not buy these books, unless you are collecting old bird books. The accounts aim for specificity and authority; dates and locations of rarity sightings are given, and research articles on nesting and behavior are cited.

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Selling Birds Short: A Heretical View Of Avian Intelligence

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Almost as soon as you leave the nest, you have the strong urge to migrate to a place called “Venezuela” Can you imagine how many potential choices and decisions are involved in flying from Alaska to the Atlantic Seaboard, flying down the eastern U.S., I look forward to more research being done in this field. But I digress.

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Birds of the West Indies by Kirwan, Levesque, Oberle & Sharpe

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The systematics and taxonomy used in this field guide follow the two volumes of the HBW and BirdLife International Illustrated Checklist of the Birds of the World (del Hoyo & Collar 2014, 2016) with some updates based on subsequent research that have already been adopted by BirdLife International and HBW Alive.