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Bird of the Month May Andean Condor

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…

June 15, 20180Comments

First eBird checklist registered for Tucuman Parrot Nature Reserve

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…

May 27, 20180Comments

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

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…

May 8, 20180Comments

Video: Polylepis restauration with Quecha communities and Madidi

[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…

May 2, 20180Comments

Video: Global Big Day 2018 Bolivia

[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…

May 2, 20180Comments

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

[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…

May 2, 20180Comments

Video: Past and present of Polylepis in Puina

[youtube id="rgJ_fhAfKNQ" align="center" mode="normal" maxwidth="900"] Learn more about the Polylepis forests in Puina from Isaac Toro, Quechua community member of Puina working with Armonía to restore to one of the most…

May 2, 20180Comments

Video: Global Big Day 2017: Bolivia #14

[youtube id="-CpDkGhiEOpg" align="center" mode="normal" maxwidth="900"] Bolivia #14 en el #GlobalBigDay - the international day of bird watching organized by eBird of the Cornell Lab of Ornithology. Interview with Sebastian K. Herzog…

May 2, 20180Comments

Video: Nest boxes save Macaws!

[youtube id="-UYqretxKVY" align="center" mode="normal" maxwidth="900"] In 2017 nine Critically Endangered Blue-throated Macaw chicks have successfully hatched from Armonia’s nest box program. The news is especially encouraging as this is the first…

May 2, 20180Comments

Video: Meet researchers at Barba Azul Nature Reserve

[youtube id="VF4BOiIdGQs" align="center" mode="normal" maxwidth="900"] Meet researchers from the Wageningen University and the University of Glasgow at #BarbaAzulNatureReserve. With over 300 bird species, 27 species of medium & large mammals and…

March 19, 20180Comments

Nest boxes: a lifeline for the Blue-throated Macaw

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…

January 23, 20180Comments

Bird of the Month December: Horned Curassow

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…

December 18, 20170Comments

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

Video: Past and present of Polylepis in Puina

Video: Global Big Day 2017: Bolivia #14

Video: Nest boxes save Macaws!

Video: Meet researchers at Barba Azul Nature Reserve

Nest boxes: a lifeline for the Blue-throated Macaw

Bird of the Month December: Horned Curassow

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