10,000 Birds

MARCH 18, 2011

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. That’s right – birds eating clay. Wicked, right?

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Peru Parrots 2011 Research Center 254

10,000 Birds

MARCH 7, 2011

The number of bird species that have been recorded from Puerto Maldondo to the Tambopata Research Center is around 620 species (all lowland elevations). Fish & Wildlife comes in response to a lawsuit brought by the Center for Biological Diversity. Wicked, right? The proposal from U.S. Hat-tip to Stella.

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Peru 2011 Deer Birds 189

10,000 Birds

MAY 28, 2016

Knowledge of constraints like road work and access also need to be taken into consideration as well as picking the best driver, food and drink (chocolate, coffee, energy bars, coffee beans) for the day, the right participants, and whatever else is needed to maximize birding time in the right places.

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Costa Rica Birds Species 100

10,000 Birds

MARCH 14, 2011

Of the Central Flyway states, Nebraska alone holds out in protecting the cranes, having proven by its longstanding Festival of the Cranes in Kearney that a crane is worth infinitely more alive and purring in the sky with its family than thudding, broken and bleeding, into a cornfield. Or These Blasts From The Past What’s In A Name?

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2011 Kentucky Tennessee Hunting 239