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The ‘Alal uses tools, Climate Change Hammers Hawaii

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In other words, crows evolve into woodpeckers when there are no woodpeckers. From Nature : Eben Paxton, of the US Geological Survey’s Pacific Island Ecosystems Research Center in Hawaii, and his colleagues analysed data on seven native species of forest bird on Kauai. Here’s a video.

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Want to Go Bird Banding in Amazonian Peru?

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The number of bird species that have been recorded from Puerto Maldondo to the Tambopata Research Center is around 620 species (all lowland elevations). I worked as a guide and on macaw projects in Tambopata in 2001 and 2002 and the diversity is simply astounding. RECENT POSTS More Habitat for Snowy Plover?

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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. And that’s just in the lowlands!

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ACTION ALERT! Tomorrow, MARCH 15, 2011, is the deadline for public.

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A Great Backyard Bird Count Miracle Best Bird of the Weekend (Last of January 2011) What is the International Bird Rescue Research Center Anyway? Or These Blasts From The Past What’s In A Name? Where Are You Birding this Second Weekend of March 2009? RECENT POSTS More Habitat for Snowy Plover?

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Combined Beats’ List – September

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International Birding and Research Center Eilat (IBRCE). International Birding and Research Center Eilat (IBRCE). International Birding and Research Center Eilat (IBRCE). Lewis’s Woodpecker – Melanerpes lewis. Red-headed Woodpecker – Melanerpes erythrocephalus. 04 Aug 2016.

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