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Cristalino Lodge: A Day as a Birding Guide

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10:00AM: With the increasing heat and subsiding of bird activity, we slowly head down back in the direction of the main lodge building, watching for displaying manakins, listening for feeding flocks, and stopping for stake-out owls or Tapajos Hermit along the way all the while answering questions and talking about the forest to the clients.

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Casa Tangara dowii, Costa Rica: to claim our feathery gold

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“In the 1960s, Efraín Chacón constructed a dirt trail [from San Gerardo de Dota] to the Pan-American Highway, and brought his family to build a house, to farm and fish for trout. Back at Casa dowii, that evening we tried playback on the resident Bare-shanked Screech-Owl , but got no response.

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Licking Clay: the Macaws of Tambopata, Peru

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UNLESS that is you get yourself down to the internationally-renowned Tambopata Research Centre in southern Peru where literally hundreds of macaws (and other parrots) congregate around a 50 meter high clay bank. That’s right – birds eating clay. Scarlet and Blue-and-Yellow Macaws Ara macao and A. Chestnut-fronted Macaws Ara severa.

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Rare Birds: The Extraordinary Tale of the Bermuda Petrel and the Man Who Brought It Back from Extinction–A Review

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And, in a very lovely section in the middle of the book, she describes the life cycle of the cahow, informing evocative passages about their nocturnal courtship and flight with recent research findings about how seabirds are able to function—eat, sleep, navigate home.

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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. The extinction event that wiped out the pterosaurs, the non-avian dinosaurs, and so much other life created enormous opportunity for new organisms to diversify and thrive (lucky for us placental mammals!), In 2008, Nick Sly published a review of Hackett et al.

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Selling Birds Short: A Heretical View Of Avian Intelligence

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What does a Flammulated Owl do all night? But many people who live closely with animals, whether as some of the more open-minded researchers or your average pet owners, have always been well aware that this simply isn’t true. I look forward to more research being done in this field.

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Peterson Field Guide to North American Bird Nests: A Field Guide Review

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Species are organized by family and families are arranged in taxonomic order according to American Ornithological Society’s Checklist of North American Birds , 7th edition through the 59th Supplement (2018). The organization varies, and there are sometimes more than one Group Accounts for a family. Species Accounts.

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