10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 13, 2011

This is a bird that flew over 3,400 miles in one flight from Brazil to South Carolina, an amazing bird that is representative of every other Whimbrel. And though the satellite transmitter let Machi be tracked it did not protect it from the hunters’ guns. Machi was, of course, only one bird.

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Hunters Barbados South Carolina Hunting 236

10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 28, 2011

And it looks even better in my hands while I dream about a visit to regions of Brazil I had scarcely heard of before being provided with a review copy of the first volume of the Wildlife Conservation Society Birds of Brazil.* What does a field guide that covers one of the most biologically diverse countries look like?

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Brazil Wildlife 2011 Birds 200

10,000 Birds

MARCH 3, 2011

and Colombia respectively, have secured thirteen new conservation easements in Colombia with private landowners that will protect important habitat for the Cerulean Warbler – North America’s fastest declining neotropical migrant songbird. The proposal from U.S.

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Colombia 2011 Deer Brazil 145