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Where the Wild Work is Done…
By Nathalie Lemieux for ParrotLife Magazine Where the Wild Work is Done…. Amazing Wildlife Researchers We all look at photos of wild parrots in awe and wonder how amazing it would be to see them first hand. Have you ever stopped to think what was involved in getting ...
Funding for Aerial Telemetry
Wednesday, 25 Mar, 2009 – 8:14
Funding for Aerial Telemetry. Message from Mark Stafford to Jaime Jiminez, Hello Jaime, Nathalie and Suzan © Photo CPC Colin Fetter
The parrots are moving again in its non-breeding patterns
Tuesday, 17 Mar, 2009 – 7:48
The parrots are moving again in its non-breeding patterns. We all knew that the juveniles would move out of range at some point in time (the poachers and farmers told us that after February, the birds would disappear!), but we were at least waiting ...
Challenges of Tracking Birds
Monday, 16 Feb, 2009 – 7:46
Challenges of Tracking Birds. A message from Ana to everyone: Dear Tom, Mark, Marie and Jaime I am monitoring the birds each 2 days. Each day the things are gettingworst. I am spending more than 14 hours in the field and ...
More Good News from Yesterday!
Monday, 26 Jan, 2009 – 20:17
More Good News from Yesterday!. We have more good news from yesterday. At Inia we checked two of our known nests (5 and 7 full grown chicks, see pictures), and could collar 3 new birds (we have only one collar ...
The SBP research is getting more exciting each day as time pass!
Friday, 9 Jan, 2009 – 20:15
The SBP research is getting more exciting each day as time pass!. During yesterday and today we had great field trips with the help of Dr Daniel Gonzalez (U. de Concepción) and Nicole Püschel (volunteer U de Chile). We confirmed 9 more nests in areas N and ...
Ana and Mauricio go to the field
Monday, 5 Jan, 2009 – 19:39
Ana and Mauricio go to the field. Yesterday, with Ana and Mauricio we went to the field (sun was unforgiving!). We had access to a new farm in between the previous checked. We found 3 new nests. One had 5 eggs, the ...
Weekend Synapsis
Tuesday, 23 Dec, 2008 – 19:34
Weekend Synapsis. Here is the synthesis of the weekend nest search: 13Dec08 AM: INIA Remehue. Learned climbing techniques with Ana and a climber. Visited one nest: PM: Chahuilco (JJ). Nelson climbed 2 trees. One had no nest. The other nest ...
Poachers help with nest access
Tuesday, 9 Dec, 2008 – 11:10
Poachers help with nest access. Here are the pictures the poacher could take. Only from two of the nests, both with eggs. One with 3 eggs and another with 6. The cavity looks large and very clean, with chips only ...
CPC Director’s introduction to the Slender-billed Project in Chile
Thursday, 20 Nov, 2008 – 1:38
CPC Director’s introduction to the Slender-billed Project in Chile. Through Dr. Mark Stafford from Parrots International, we realized that you are interested in volunteering for the newly launched slender-billed parakeet project during February of next year. We would be very happy to have you ...
CPC Director’s Volunteering in Chile
Wednesday, 19 Nov, 2008 – 7:36
CPC Director’s Volunteering in Chile. Note for Jaime Jiminez from Mark Stafford Hope all is well in Southern Chile. I have just returned from the Canadian Parrot Conference in Guelph, Canada, where I had the pleasure of meeting Nathalie Lemieux and ...

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