Cover photo: After the ribbon-cutting that inaugurated the school nursery in Aten
The indigenous LECO community of Aten located in the Apolo municipality of La Paz, inaugurated on June 2023 a school nursery with native trees…
Sustainable Ranching is officially in the works for protecting habitats in the Beni department. Over the last year, the Barba Azul Nature Reserve has started implementing best practices in Barba Azul East, currently managing 137…
Have you ever considered volunteering your time for the greater good and coming away with the experience of a lifetime? Do you enjoy working hard and dream of your efforts having a lasting impact? Are…
The Birds of Bolivia Field Guide is available for the first time ever for sale in the US and abroad. Printed in Bolivia in late 2016, the first edition of this field guide has always…
Nine authors and thirteen artists spent eleven years to gather in a single field guide the 1435 species of the sixth most diverse country in bird species: Bolivia. The “Birds of Bolivia - Field Guide”…
Barba Azul Nature Reserve is completing the long-awaited dining facility supported by American Bird Conservancy and International Conservation Fund of Canada, one of the remaining infrastructure constructions needed to complete our tourism offer. It is…
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.…
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A principios de febrero de 2017, una expedción de Armonía descubrió nuevos lugares de anidamiento de la Paraba Barba Azul (Ara glaucogularis), especie endémica de Bolivia, en Pelígro Crítico de extinción. Este…
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…
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…