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Photo Essay: Green-rumped Parrotlets from Egg to Adult

10,000 Birds

Nick wrote a guest post on Forpus passerinus and the Ornithologists of Masaguaral which was full of passion, humor, and insight into his work while on location in Venezuela. My co-worker thinks a better name for them is porcupine parrotlets. They develop pin feathers, growing feathers still curled inside the sheath.

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