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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. You don’t really know a bird until you’ve studied it on its breeding grounds. Here is a little forpling on day one. The Auk 108: 863-871.
Interestingly, perhaps explaining their widespread distribution that includes many islands, I have observed anis soaring in Venezuela much like a vulture or raptor. According to the Florida Breeding Bird Atlas, the first confirmed breeding record was in Miami in July of 1938. Diet is composed mostly of large insects.
His summers during college were spent as a biological technician, monitoring breeding birds for Point Reyes Bird Observatory in Eastern Oregon, and also five seasons in Black Hills, SD, working for the Rocky Mountain Bird Observatory.
Also, the distributions of subspecies breeding in the region are clearly mapped. Also, the distributions of subspecies breeding in the region are clearly mapped. Over 2000 full-colour distribution maps for all regularly occurring species are seamlessly blended next to bird illustrations.
This map shows the distribution of the World’s bird species, based on overlying the breeding and wintering ranges of all known species. Venezuela (1365 / 1383). It makes me think what is the meaning of life, the universe and everything? Why am I here? And where all those birds are? Map by BirdLife International. Kenya (1034 / 1153).
Even during the breeding season the birds appear to be quite unwary of humans. Robin Restall is principal author of the two-volume Birds of Northern South America and was executive director of the Phelps Ornithological Collection, Caracas, Venezuela. He is now a director of the Phelps Foundation.
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