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Photo-essay - Green-rumped Parrotlets: from egg to adult

By Charlie January 15, 2009 16 comments

Nick Sly, a blogger who writes at the thoroughly-recommended Biological Ramblings is an ornithologist, recently graduated from Cornell and cast out into the real world where he keeps a wry eye on all things biological! In October 2008, in his first field job out of school, he helped a Cornell PhD student, Karl, with his [...]

Forpus passerinus and the Ornithologists of Masaguaral

By a Guest October 15, 2008 9 comments

Nick Sly is an ornithologist, recently graduated from Cornell and cast into the real world. He is currently located in Venezuela, in his first field job out of school, helping a Cornell PhD student, Karl, with his dissertation on vocal communication in Green-rumped Parrotlets. This population of parrotlets is located on one of the many [...]

Video Guide Of The Birds Of Venezuela

By Mike August 30, 2005 No comments yet

This planet of ours is impossibly vast, as those eager to bird the length and width of it might attest. Watching birds in a new territory can be a tense affair; if you don’t spot and identify that tody-flycatcher during your brief stay in a distant land, YOU MAY NEVER GET ANOTHER CHANCE! There are [...]