10,000 Birds
JUNE 20, 2020
Costa Rica is a country situated well south of the Tropic of Cancer and like most places without a winter, parrots are an essential part of the local avifauna. With 18 species of native Psittacids to choose from, birding in Costa Rica is always a thrill, especially for someone who grew up in parrotless Niagara Falls, New York!
10,000 Birds
OCTOBER 16, 2017
But instead of picking up chronologically from where I left off I have decided to skip ahead to our last evening in Puerto Rico when we were going for the biggest prize of all the Puerto Rican endemic birds, the Critically Endangered Puerto Rican Parrot. How about some pictures of parrots? We saw a Puerto Rican Parrot !
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10,000 Birds
APRIL 21, 2011
Debbie Wortland is an inspiration and a reminder that citizen-scientists can make significant contributions, even with an endangered species.
10,000 Birds
MARCH 5, 2024
Several endangered species are (or have been) highly dependent on specific tracts of federal land. For decades before the reintroduction of additional populations, the Puerto Rican Parrot was only found in El Yunque NF near San Juan. For example, Whooping Cranes winter almost exclusively at Aransas NWR in Texas.
10,000 Birds
SEPTEMBER 12, 2017
Before the Endangered Species Act of 1973 (ESA), there was the Endangered Species Preservation Act of 1966. endangered species was issued on March 11, 1967, under the earlier law, and those listings were ultimately grandfathered into the ESA. Puerto Rican Parrot – Amazona vittata.
10,000 Birds
JUNE 25, 2022
Yellow-naped Parrot (Amazona auropalliata). Like the Great Green Macaw, in Costa Rica, this large parrot of the dry forest is fairly easy to see. When asked about the Yellow-naped Parrot, in many places, locals mention how this bird was much more common just 20 years ago but that they no longer see it. Blue-vented Hummingbird.
10,000 Birds
JULY 19, 2021
Jim’s first contribution to 10,000 Birds was A Rare Caribbean Parrot on the Brink. In 2021, the American Ornithological Society announced that it has now classified the Bahama Nuthatch as a distinct species, Sitta insularis. His latest book is The Real James Bond , available as a hardcover, an eBook and an audiobook.
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