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Wild Monk Parrots of Brooklyn
Sunday, December 07 2003 @ 07:22 AM UTC
Contributed by: MikeSchindlinger
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Travel In and around streets and fields of Brooklyn College, Monk parrots thrive. The neighborhood values these transplanted bits of the wild, and reseachers at the college are observing their everyday habits.

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Ecotour Log: Los Ebanos, Tamaulipas, Mexico by J. Marie Digatono
Friday, December 05 2003 @ 09:40 PM UTC
Contributed by: Admin
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Travel Just back from our ecotour to amazon country, we are truly in awe of what we have been fortunate enough to see! A pair of Amazona oratrix (Double Yellow-headed Amazons) flew directly over as we began our first morning tour, giving new visitors a taste of the excitement to come. Oratrix always seem to be having so much fun out there in the big open sky, yodeling duets with their mates and squawking at others who dare to land on "their" branch. That first afternoon, we got to observe a group of nine fairly closely!

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Field Course: Peruvian Amazon, 13-21 August 2004
Friday, December 05 2003 @ 04:04 PM UTC
Contributed by: MikeSchindlinger
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Travel CNSCI 2120: Field Experiences in TROPICAL ECOLOGY
a 3-credit field experience with a pre-departure course segment coordinated electronically using Blackboard

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