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Power Companies and Springtime Tree Removal

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But there are ways to prevent this situation, and to prevent the constant springtime problem of wildlife being orphaned… like these Barred Owls , above left, and Red-Shouldered Hawks , all of whom were delivered as eggs to Christine’s Critters in Weston, CT, thanks to two different private homeowners’ felling of trees. 5) Display attitude.

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Want to Go Bird Banding in Amazonian Peru?

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I recently heard from Chris Kirkby, the Managing Director and Principal Investigator at Asociacion Fauna Forever , a Peruvian not-for-profit organisation based in Lima and Puerto Maldonado, about a series of bird-banding workshops being held this June and November in the rainforests of Tambopata in south-eastern Peru. The proposal from U.S.

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Licking Clay: the Macaws of Tambopata, Peru

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Many of the fruits, seeds and flowers that make up a significant part of a macaw’s diet in this part of the Amazon basin have evolved with naturally occurring toxins designed for the plant’s self-protection. The clay consumed at the colpa contains chemicals that bind with these ingested alkaloids thus neutralizing their toxicity.

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Spotlight: Lisa Beth Acton, Raising Ravens

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She has a captive-bred education bird named Xena, a Eurasian Eagle Owl. We would close the flight around 10 PM to protect them from predators, then we’d get up at four in the morning to open the door again. They immediately went to investigate it, and quickly learned to move when cars were coming. Release day came. It was great!

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Big Day Birding in Costa Rica- Strategies and Constraints

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Scouting can also turn up rare birds, fruiting and flowering trees, and maybe even an owl roost. Yes, we have a good deal of protected, accessible tropical forest but what we don’t have is an immediate way to lower temperatures and increase the rains. We still managed to see Emerald Tanager.

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Birding Shanghai in June 2022

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If the animal then touches or investigates the mark, it is taken as an indication that the animal perceives the reflected image as an image of itself, rather than of another animal. If it is, then waterboarding should be protected as US-American culture. When the animal recovers from the anesthetic, it is given access to a mirror.

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