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Licking Clay: the Macaws of Tambopata, Peru

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This is all in a day’s work and a typical morning here at the Tambopata Research Center in the Madre de Dios district of Peru where, on behalf of the conservation agency Earthwatch Institute , I have come to volunteer for two weeks for the Tambopata Macaw Project. That’s right – birds eating clay. And that’s just in the lowlands!

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A Field Guide to the Wildlife of South Georgia: A Book Review by a Penguin Groupie

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Human habitation and industry had an almost devastating effect on this area. from Princeton University Press (directly from their website or from online book stores) and in Europe from the South Georgia Heritage Trust website. Photographs used with permission of Princeton University Press and the South Georgia Heritage Trust.

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