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Masked Trogon as Inspiration: The Art of Luisa Elena Betancourt

By October 14, 2011 1 comment

Luisa Elena Betancourt is an artist with a MFA from Washington State University which she got through the Fulbright program in 1992. She contacted Corey to ask permission to use a Masked Trogon image from the blog for an art show and Corey agreed provided she would write a post for 10,000 Birds about how [...]

Forpus passerinus and the Ornithologists of Masaguaral

By October 15, 2008 10 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 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 [...]