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Feather Trails: A Journey of Discovery Among Endangered Birds–A Book Review

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” But also: “Delisted,” “Growing Up,” “Second Chances,” “No Tags.” ” But also: “Delisted,” “Growing Up,” “Second Chances,” “No Tags.” She crafts her prose with a visual immediacy that bring you directly into her experience.

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Licking Clay: the Macaws of Tambopata, Peru

10,000 Birds

Found throughout South America in ever-dwindling numbers these extremely beautiful birds – threatened by habitat destruction and collection for the wild bird trade – are often difficult to see and hard to find. The experience is one of the ornithological highlights in the world. Chestnut-fronted Macaws Ara severa.

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Bird Banding the Dry Tortugas

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For decades researchers have made annual trips out to the Tortugas to catch Sooty Terns, attach tiny silver bands to their legs with unique identification numbers, and then set them free again. Throughout the next three full days I would experience all of the jobs that go along with proper bird banding.

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