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Rancho Naturalista Lodge, Costa Rica, or When Harry Met Mercedes

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Add Common Tody-Flycatcher and several Hoffmann’s Woodpeckers and Brown-hooded Parrots to that picture, among many others. Yet, with a coffee in one and binoculars in my other hand, the long ago learned lessons started to return.

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Summer Books for Kids (and the rest of us)

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Parrots Over Puerto Rico is a wonderland of colors and shapes. The story of the Puerto Rican Amazon, also known as the Puerto Rico Parrot, Parrots Over Puerto Rico is illustrated with deeply hued collages created by Susan L. The parrots called as they looked for deep nesting holes in the tall trees. Other Europeans came.

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Getting Lost in North Sydney

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Eurasian Coots, Dusky Moorhens and Purple Swamphens represented the more visible end of the rail spectrum, and perhaps best of all, or worst of all, was a rat. Which may have been just an introduced Brown rat, but it also could have been a Native Water Rat. Birding albatrosses Honeyeaters parrots Sydney'

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What is a Jackbird?

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The site also seemed to suggest a few that seemed flat out wrong; parrotlets aren’t baby parrots, they are a type of small parrot, same with owlets and peeps. One website I found suggested a few others that may be true but I hadn’t encountered before, are young cranes actually called colts, or falcons eyas?

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Come@Me: Invasive Species Can Be Awesome

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Especially when there are some ‘invasive’ species, like the parrots, that seem to bring little documented harm and a great deal of joy to observers. We all hate Mute Swans too, the more so because their aggressive nature makes their graceful aesthetic and Valentine-card public image seem hypocritical.

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Birds and Bling

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First of all: most of us don’t have much, because we spend all our money on gauze, antibiotics, and frozen rats. And parrots =.”. My own parrots have taught me to avoid wearing jewelry unless I’m far from home. Wildlife rehabilitators are not known for our bling. As for nice clothing … right!

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Bid for the chance to raise Kakapo!

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Bidding is on TradeMe (New Zealand’s eBay), and the money raised will go to clearing the Antipodes Islands of introduced rats ( a story we talked about before ). The Department of Conservation in New Zealand is giving you, yes you , the chance to spend two days and one night raising Kakapo chicks ! So it’s win-win really.

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