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Parrot, Parrot, Parrakeet, Hummingbird

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Twenty-five Puerto Rican Parrots are being groomed to be pioneers: The Critcally Endangered birds have been transported from existing colonies to the Maricao State Forest. Researchers are planning to ask the American Ornithologists’ Union to make the split official.

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A Connecticut Yankee Goes to Washington: Senator George P. McLean, Birdman of the Senate

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A great-great nephew of Senator McLean, Greeley spent three years researching and writing this book. Greeley has a historian’s instincts, perhaps stemming from his training as an archivist (though he ended up, he says vaguely, in business and market research). Congress and Senate who recognized the need to protect the birds.

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A Birder Reads a Scientific Paper

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Several years ago, I read about the enormous colonies of breeding birds in the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands and I did some research to satisfy my curiosity. ( Google Scholar is an excellent resource and free full-text PDFs can be located for many papers, particularly when research is taxpayer-funded.

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Panama Trip Report: April 2017

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I never researched the resort, imagining that it lacked the amenities my family wanted, but visiting for dinner allowed us to rent its grandeur without forking over the considerable room rates. TRANSPORTATION. Panama inflicts usurious car insurance policies on visitors, so do your research. Tropical Kingbird. Eastern Kingbird.

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Hong Kong Trip Report: February 2014

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And even though transportation is so easy and inexpensive, prepare to walk a lot. Do your research. Imagine me there raring to see more exciting Asian avifauna while the rest of the group screeches to a halt to spend 45 minutes admiring birds I see all the time in New York. Plus, taxis are cheaper than you’d expect.

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