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Want to Go Bird Banding in Amazonian Peru?

10,000 Birds

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.

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Mrs Pankhurst’s Purple Feather–A Book Review

10,000 Birds

She recreates Alice’s world, describing the poverty in which she and her co-workers, including children, lived, utilizing reports of government Factory and Workshop inspectors and, on the U.S. side, the writings of New York City reformer Mary Van Kleeck. This is good stuff.

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