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The Most Important Nesting Area of the World’s Rarest Macaw becomes New Nature Reserve

August 20, 20180Comments

Ringed Blue-throated Macaws return to the nestbox (Santa Cruz, Bolivia. August 20, 2018) The Bolivian conservation organization Asociación Armonía has purchased the most important nesting area of the Critically Endangered Blue-throated Macaw in a joint effort…

Ave del Mes Julio: Ganso del Orinoco

August 3, 20180Comments

Julio Ganso del Orinoco Nombre Científico: Oressachen jubatus Nombre en inglés: Orinoco Goose Estatus: Casi Amenazada (IUCN red list of endangered species) Hábitat y comportamiento: Raro a localmente bastante común en orillas y playas arenosas de ríos en zonas boscosas, lagunas y…

Bird of the Month July: Orinoco Goose

August 2, 20180Comments

July Orinoco Goose Scientific name: Oressachen jubatus Spanish name: Ganso del Orinoco Status: Near Threatened (IUCN red list of endangered species) Habitat and behaviour: Rare to locally fairly common on banks and sanbars of forested rivers,on lakes, in seasonally flooded…

Bird of the Month July: Cliff Parakeet

June 15, 20180Comments

July Cliff Parakeet Scientific name: Myiopsitta luchsi Spanish name: Cotorra de los Acantilados Status: Least Concern (IUCN red list of endangered species) Habitat and behaviour: Bolivian endemic. Uncommon to abundant in dry forest, scrub, and cultivated areas in inter-Andean vallleys of Central Bolivia. Its…

Bird of the Month April: American Kestler

June 15, 20180Comments

April American Kestler Scientific name: Falco sparverius Spanish name: Cernícalo Americano Status: Least Concern (IUCN red list of endangered species) Habitat and behaviour: Rare to locally fairly common but widespread in open country in dry to humid lowlands and highlands including towns and cities.…

Bird of the Month June: Black-bellied Whistling Duck

June 15, 20180Comments

June Black-bellied Whistling Duck Scientific name: Dendrocygna autumnalis Spanish name: Pato Silbón Vientre Negro Status: Least Concern (IUCN red list of endangered species) Habitat and behaviour: Fairly common to common in lowland marshes, ponds, lakes, and seasonally flooded savanna like the habitats of Barba…

Bird of the Month May Andean Condor

June 15, 20180Comments

May [youtube id="rBwAFpllHiE" align="center" maxwidth="900"] Andean Condor Scientific name: Vulthur gryphus Spanish name: Cóndor Andino Status: Near Threatened (IUCN red list of endangered species) Habitat and behaviour: Rare to locally fairly common in high Andean Puna grassland, at Yungas treeline over dry to…

First eBird checklist registered for Tucuman Parrot Nature Reserve

May 27, 20180Comments

Tucuman Parrot (Amazona tucumana) by Paul B. Jones The first checklist on eBird for the Tucuman Parrot Nature Reserve reveals the extraordinary avifauna of this humid area of mixed Tucuman and Cloud Forests of southern Bolivia.…

Quechua communities planted 25 500 Polylepis saplings to restore threatened forests in Madidi

May 8, 20180Comments

Hiking 14 500 feet high slopes to the Polylepis forests. (Photo by Márton Hardy) At dawns early light, Quechua campesinos from Puina gather to climb the 14 500 feet high slopes of the Bolivian Tropical Andes.…

Video: Polylepis restauration with Quecha communities and Madidi

May 2, 20180Comments

[youtube id="D1CcpN7ns8I" align="center" mode="normal" maxwidth="900"] 25 500 Polylepis saplings planted by local Quechua communities, staff from the # Madidi national park and Armonía: The most extensive Polylepis restauration in Bolivia to this date! Help us protect…

Video: Global Big Day 2018 Bolivia

May 2, 20180Comments

[youtube id="vZwJWtv8x0M" align="center" mode="normal" maxwidth="900"] This 5th of May it is Global Big Day. In 2016 Bolivia has not even participated to Big Day, yet in 2017 we impulsed the country to the #14 of the…

Video: Bolivian biologists continue to discover new species in the forests of Madidi National Park

May 2, 20180Comments

[youtube id="dG3mB0UqeK4" align="center" mode="normal" maxwidth="900"] Herpetologists from Armonia’s ‘Polylepis Forests’ project, who also work for the ‘Identidad Madidi’ project, discovered four species of amphibians not yet known to science. These amphibians of the genus Microkayla (formerly Psychrophrynella) are small and…

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The Most Important Nesting Area of the World’s Rarest Macaw becomes New Nature Reserve

Ave del Mes Julio: Ganso del Orinoco

Bird of the Month July: Orinoco Goose

Bird of the Month July: Cliff Parakeet

Bird of the Month April: American Kestler

Bird of the Month June: Black-bellied Whistling Duck

Bird of the Month May Andean Condor

First eBird checklist registered for Tucuman Parrot Nature Reserve

Quechua communities planted 25 500 Polylepis saplings to restore threatened forests in Madidi

Video: Polylepis restauration with Quecha communities and Madidi

Video: Global Big Day 2018 Bolivia

Video: Bolivian biologists continue to discover new species in the forests of Madidi National Park

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