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Hawk-Eagle Sweep in Costa Rica

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Their populations are often limited by inter-specific competition, scarce resources and other factors. Like a Northern Goshawk on steroids with fancy plumage, these birds can take small monkeys, opossums, ibis, toucans, macaws, and other medium-sized animals of the rainforest. This curassow is great.

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Deconstructing Slate's "Pepper" Series

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Part V: Me and My Monkey. He talks about "My research monkey," Clayton, and what he did to Clayton, and writes as if Clayton didn't mind at all. Engber returned recently to the "monkey room" where Clayton was kept when Engber used him for research years ago and to his surprise, Clayton was still there. But not shocked enough.

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Bird Watching Rio Canande Reserve

10,000 Birds

All of the forest in these areas has been cleared many years ago to give way to food production and housing for small towns that continually expand as the local families grow and require more resources for food, housing and employment. There are only a few sparse trees have been left behind to give shadow and housing for some birds.

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Pulling Birds at Panti Forest in Malaysia

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Plus, I saw awesome bats, bugs, butterflies, herps, pitcher plants, and four of the five possible monkey species: Dusky Leaf Monkey , Banded Leaf Monkey , Southern Pig-tailed Macaque , and Long-tailed Macaque. Con is a master at his craft and an uncanny resource on the birds of Singapore, Malaysia, and much of Asia.

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Hong Kong Trip Report: February 2014

10,000 Birds

The BirdForum thread for China (including Hong Kong & Macau) is a phenomenal resource, as are blogs written by HK birders like John Holmes. OK, this isn’t much of a list, but all wild monkey sightings deserve recognition! ). Monkey at a monastery. As ever, the internet is your friend! Rhesus Macaque.

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Come@Me: Don’t Mourn for Extinct Birds

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The causes were the usual reasons for island extinction—deforestation by both humans and invasive plants that crowded out native plants, hunting, and invasive rats, mongoose, monkeys, and, of course, feral cats. And, possibly, a waste of resources to try to extend near-extinct species into the future.

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Ghana – Rainforest Birding on the Brink by Adam Riley

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I have seen both Long-tailed and Tree Pangolins , Greater Cane Rat , several species of monkey and duiker, Royal Antelope , Pel’s Anomalure (a giant flying squirrel), huge casqued hornbills, Great Blue Turacos and numerous other birds and mammals for sale along the roadsides.

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