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Bird Day: A Story of 24 Hours and 24 Avian Lives–A Book Review

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of Chicago Press, 2014). The book is listed in the University of Chicago Press as the first in an “Earth Day” series , described as a series of short books offering “twenty-four chapters, corresponding to twenty-four hour-long windows to witness the diversity of life.” Mark Hauber is currently (just appointed!)

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Licking Clay: the Macaws of Tambopata, Peru

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This is all in a day’s work and a typical morning here at the Tambopata Research Center in the Madre de Dios district of Peru where, on behalf of the conservation agency Earthwatch Institute , I have come to volunteer for two weeks for the Tambopata Macaw Project. Volunteers are one of the most important aspects to the project.

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