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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. Scarlet Macaw Ara macao. Scarlet and Blue-and-Yellow Macaws Ara macao and A.

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Great Tit Telomeres, Baby Talk, Brainy Birds

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Research done quite a while back suggests that this is adaptive. Researchers have been studying song learning in birds for some time. What’s more, the researchers found that juvenile birds pay more attention to this “baby talk” compared to other songs. You are certainly already familiar with this.

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Spotlight: Lisa Beth Acton, Raising Ravens

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He meant well, but his research told him to feed them Exact parrot formula – which is NOT a diet for ravens. They immediately went to investigate it, and quickly learned to move when cars were coming. The caller had three baby ravens from a nest he was ordered to remove and destroy at work.

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Ferntree Gully-Dandenong Ranges National Park

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Last Sunday Grant was able to leave work in the afternoon and I had researched options of places we could get to within one hour of the city of Melbourne using public transport that would offer us some birding opportunities. Australian King-Parrot. Birding Australia Australian birds Melbourne parrots treecreeper'