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Solid Air: Invisible Killer Saving Billions of Birds From Windows–A Book Review

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JULY 5, 2022

Over the next few days, I found increasing numbers, goldfinches, juncos, white-throated sparrows. Dead birds are a part of the life of a birder, a feeder of birds, and of bird science. I was shocked when I found the first body, a female Towhee. I hoped it was an anomaly. Were they always there and I just never noticed?

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Licking Clay: the Macaws of Tambopata, Peru

10,000 Birds

MARCH 18, 2011

Years of follow-up research conducted by one of Earthwatch’s principal investigators on the Tambopata Macaw project, Dr. Don Brightsmith, shows, however, that within the study area of the clay lick the birds tend to choose the soil with the highest sodium content over soils that are best for neutralizing toxins.

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Solid Air: Invisible Killer Saving Billions of Birds From Windows–A Book Review

Licking Clay: the Macaws of Tambopata, Peru

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