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Licking Clay: the Macaws of Tambopata, Peru

10,000 Birds

The primary reasons for the decline of macaws and parrots are many but habitat loss due to logging; clear cutting for crops and cattle ranching; and capture for the pet trade rank among the most threatening. These threats are further exacerbated by the naturally low reproductive rates of these cavity-nesting birds.

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Combined Beats’ List, May 2016

10,000 Birds

Dragan continues to be teacher’s pet simply by sharing as he goes. Others, by their own admission, are Luddites and believe that the pinnacle of human technological achievement was reached on the day that man first bound a notebook in moleskin. Seaside Sparrow – Ammodramus maritimus. Cattle Egret – Bubulcus ibis.

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