10,000 Birds

MARCH 7, 2011

Deadline for Great Giveaways About the Author Mike Mike is a leading authority in the field of standardized test preparation, but what he really aspires to be is a naturalist. The number of bird species that have been recorded from Puerto Maldondo to the Tambopata Research Center is around 620 species (all lowland elevations).

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Peru 2011 Deer 2010 184

10,000 Birds

MARCH 18, 2011

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! Thanks for visiting!

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Peru Parrots 2011 Deer 253

10,000 Birds

MARCH 14, 2011

Of the Central Flyway states, Nebraska alone holds out in protecting the cranes, having proven by its longstanding Festival of the Cranes in Kearney that a crane is worth infinitely more alive and purring in the sky with its family than thudding, broken and bleeding, into a cornfield. Hunters will be required to pass and ID test.

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