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Costa Rica’s Signature Parakeet

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In being wonderfully obvious, such birds become avian ambassadors, special “signature” species with the potential to raise bird awareness, to reconnect crucial links between people and the nature that surrounds them, with the ecosystems they partake in. Looking for parrots at sites with rainforest? Birding in a local park?

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How to See 300 Bird Species in 3 Days

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Those of us who chase rare birds for our counties, states, or other human-made geographical distinctions watch birds for more reasons than the twitch. It’s all good in the birding hood no matter where one raises the bins but in Costa Rica, it’s easy to get spoiled by diversity. Loving the Ground-Cuckoo.

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Here’s the new bird family tree. It’s amazing.

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’s bird family tree in a new tab and follow along as you read. So do parrots, some songbirds, humans, and a few other mammals. shocked everyone with a suggestion that passerines were most closely related not to woodpeckers and kingfishers but to parrots, falcons, and seriemas. Open Jarvis et al.’s

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What the Owl Knows: The New Science of the World’s Most Enigmatic Birds: A Book Review

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It’s also about human-owl interaction on an individual level and a wider sociocultural level, and ultimately how we can use all this for habitat and bird conservation. The species are taxonomically divided into two families: Tytonidae, Barn-Owls, and Strigidae, Owls, encompassed in one order, Strigiformes.

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Backyard Beneficiaries

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A Yellow-crowned Parrot digs in. Thankfully, they now have a home here where they can court, build their nest, and raise their young. Life here is experiencing a boon in the face of encroaching human activity, at least in my immediate vicinity. This, as well as all the other images in this post, were all made at home.

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What It’s Like to Be a Bird: A Review of the New Sibley Book

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The longer Introduction lists and briefly summarizes topics covered in the Portfolio (evolution feathers, coloration, variation, senses, movement, physiology, migration, food and foraging, survival, social behavior, birds and humans, threats). Do they have families too and do they take care of them? How are they different?

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The Lost Macaw of Cuba

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Islands, with their high levels of endemism and specialization, are particularly fragile and vulnerable to human activity. Formerly described in 1811 by Johann Matthäus Bechstein, the Cuban Macaw was a primarily red, long-tailed parrot with beautiful orange feathering around the nape and blue feathering on the wings and tail.

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