Mysteries solved about the Blue-throated Macaws’ migration routes.
Ranger César Flores monitoring nestbox at Laney Rickman Reserve (Photo: Márton Hardy - Asociación Armonía)
Laney Rickman Reserve in Bolivia protects the largest known breeding population of the Critically Endangered Blue-throated Macaw against poachers and…
In 2018 BirdLife International partners from the Americas elected new members of the Executive Comitee for BirdLife Americas Regional Council. Members of the new council are renowned conservationists from Canada, Bolivia, the US, Panama and…
El “Plan de conservación y restauración de los bosques de Polylepis del Madidi y Cotapata” fue elaborado por la Asocación Civil Armonía para el uso de áreas protegidas y las comunidades locales para el manejo…
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.…
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…
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.…
71 Blue-throated Macaw chicks has fledged from our nest boxes in 2017 (Photo: Aidan Maccormick)
2017 was an important year for the conservation of the Blue Throated Macaw (Ara glaucogularis). A record number of nine macaws…
December
Horned Curassow
Scientific name: Pauxi unicornis
Spanish name: Paujil Copete de Piedra/ Pilisto
Status: Critically Endangered (IUCN red list of endangered species)
Habitat and behaviour:
Elusive bird species present in wet lower Yungas ecoregion and foothill forests. Mostly solitary…
In October 2017, reserve coordinator Tjalle Boorsma sighted a record number of 155 Blue-throated Macaws at a newly discovered roosting location at Barba Azul Nature Reserve. The sighting of large flocks confirms a steady increase…
Illustration from Birds of Bolivia Field Guide by Cristopher Vogel
October
Andean Goose
Scientific name: Oressochen meanopterus
Spanish name: Ganso Andino (waćhwa – Quechua)
Status: Least Concern (IUCN red list of endangered species)
Habitat and behaviour:
Uncommon to common along borders…
Nine Blue-throated Macaw chicks have fledged from our nest boxes in 2017. (Photo: Aidan Maccormick)
This year nine Critically Endangered Blue-throated Macaw chicks have successfully hatched from Armonia’s nest box program. The news is especially encouraging…