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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
May
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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…
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…
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…
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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…
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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…
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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…