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Licking Clay: the Macaws of Tambopata, Peru

10,000 Birds

The long-term objectives of the project are varied but include the monitoring and observation of macaw nest sites, developing and testing nest boxes, recording the varied patterns of clay lick use by large macaws and parrots and better understanding the impact of tourism to this world famous clay lick. That’s right – birds eating clay.

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Birding Shanghai in June 2022

10,000 Birds

One of the established ways to evaluate self-cognition in animals (including humans) is the mirror test. In the classic test, an animal is anesthetized and then marked on an area of the body the animal cannot normally see. What could be plainer than the Eurasian Tree Sparrow ?

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