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Click a Button, Save a Parrot

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Maybe the proposition isn’t that simple, but you can vote to allocate $40,000 from National Geographic Germany to Fundación ProAves to support conservation of the practically extinct Fuertes’s Parrot.

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More Heath Birding around Bonn

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While this bird is not uncommon in Germany, I have only seen this species once in the region around Bonn (which I should probably blame in part on the infrequency of my birding outings). While experiments have shown that some birds (like crows and parrots) can count, this rule unsurprisingly did not hold when subjected to testing.

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Bird Day: A Story of 24 Hours and 24 Avian Lives–A Book Review

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The selections appear to largely reflect Hauber’s personal experiences around the world and he does occasionally bring himself into the essay, reflecting on a European Robin he observes at dusk in northwestern Germany or searching for American Robin nests on a tree farm in the Midwestern United States. © 2023 Tony Angell; © 2023 Mark E.

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The Rose-ringed Parakeets of Heidelberg

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This article is about the parrots we have, not the ones we wish we had. Here in Germany, we don’t wish we had. Yes, Germany has parrots, or parakeets to be more precise. Yes, Germany has parrots, or parakeets to be more precise. A Birdy New Year! Because we never have had.

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The mousebird mystery

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’s “land bird clade,” with passerines, parrots, falcons, woodpeckers, the Coraciiformes (kingfishers, hornbills, bee-eaters, etc.), But to what other birds are mousebirds related? They do belong in Hackett et al.’s

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Birding Yibin, Sichuan

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Yibin is a typical smallish Chinese city (which in China means slightly above 850,000 people in the metro area, which would make it the fifth-biggest city in Germany but does not get it into the top 100 in China).

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What’s the Next ABA-Countable Exotic?

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With its proven track record of adapting and spreading in areas with cold winters such as Germany and England, it might even be able to colonize large portions of the southern United States. Furthermore, this little parrot has another aspect going for it. Egyptian Goose sightings submitted to eBird in 2011-2012.