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Week To Week Birding

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Savannah Sparrows are the most common and I do enjoy their territory song. Cattle wandered this pasture along with me (one cow even attempted to taste my carbon fiber tripod). Each week a new species tried to test the patch for nesting territory. It’s a good strategy for Bobolinks to have.

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Licking Clay: the Macaws of Tambopata, Peru

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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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