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Andean Condors On The News

10,000 Birds

Unfortunately, contemporary people from the high Andes are beginning to see condors as the enemy; a predator that will kill and eat livestock. After a while, Condors will continue eating the now dead animal and this is what people witness and believe condor intentionally killed the animal and then ate it. Photo: Alexander More.

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Frank Chapman, the CBC, and a Question

10,000 Birds

Instead of competitively killing birds each Christmas season, Chapman proposed counting birds instead. Chapman was a pioneer of the Neotropics, publishing various surveys of the birdlife of countries like Colombia and Ecuador. This is his first contribution to 10,000 Birds.