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Ever wonder what goes on behind the scenes in chambers? Ever wonder why there are sudden, abrupt and unexplained recesses during a murder trial? Everyone runs out of the courtroom and you are left there sitting without a clue. This is a fictional, tongue-in-cheek rendition of a murder trial which goes awry. Of course, it plays out in a courtroom amidst great turmoil and with an escaping defendant. It also gives a bird's eye view of the pecking order among the participants involved in the trial. It is funny and entertaining and the first of many stories to come. ... Read more

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Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: Birds of the Isle of Youth, Cuban Amazon, Cuban Red Macaw, Bee Hummingbird, Cuban Crocodile, West Indian Woodpecker, Cuban Bullfinch, Greater Antillean Oriole, Cuban Gnatcatcher, Anartia Lytrea. Excerpt: The Cuban Amazon, Amazona leucocephala, also known as Cuban Parrot or the Rose-throated Parrot, is a medium-sized mainly green parrot found in woodlands and dry forests of Cuba, the Bahamas and Cayman Islands in the Caribbean. A. l. caymanensis on Grand Cayman IslandThe Cuban Amazon is a medium-sized parrot 2833 centimetres (1113 in) long. It is mainly green with some blue feathers in its wings. The green feathers are edged with a terminal black rim. Its lower face, chin and throat are rosy pink, and its forehead and eye-rings are white. The extent of the various colours of the head, the extent of the rosy pink on the upper chest, and the extent of the dull red on the abdomen vary between the subspecies. Its irises are pale olive-green, its beak is horn-coloured, and the feathers over the ears are blackish. The legs are pink. The juvenile has little or no red on the abdomen, less black edging on the green feathers, and some of the feathers on the top of its head may be pale yellow rather than white. Traditionally, most authorities have recognize four subspecies of the Cuban Amazon, thereby following the 1928 review by James Lee Peters. A. l. palmarum (Todd, 1916) was thought to be a separate subspecies living in western Cuba (east to Villa Clara Province) and Isla de la Juventud based on differences in the plumage, but in 1928 a re-evaluation indicated that the colour differences were due to age-related variations and that they showed no substantial differences to the specimens obtained from the rest of Cuba (i.e., A. l. leucocephala sensu ... More: http://booksllc.net/?id=2679557 ... Read more

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Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Not illustrated. Excerpt: The Lear's Macaw (Anodorhynchus leari), also known as the Indigo Macaw, is a rare Brazilian parrot with a highly restricted range. It is metallic blue with a faint, often barely visible, tinge of green, and a yellow patch of skin at the base of the heavy, black bill. It weighs around 950 g (2 pounds) and is 75 cm (30 inches) long. It was named after the poet, author, and artist, Edward Lear, who published many drawings and paintings of live parrots in zoos and collections. One of his paintings in his book Illustrations of the Family of the Psittacidae, or Parrots strongly resemble this species, although at the time it was believed to be a Hyacinth Macaw a species which is larger, darker, and has a differently shaped patch of yellow skin adjacent to the base of the bill. The Lear's Macaw is 7075 cm (27.530 in.) long. The body, tail, and wings are dark blue and the head is a slightly paler shade. It has an area of bare pale-yellow skin adjacent to the base of its beak, and orange-yellow eyerings. It has a large blackish beak and dark grey feet. The general appearance of the Lear's Macaw is similar to the larger Hyacinth macaw and the smaller Glaucous Macaw. The Lear's Macaw lives in stands of Licuri palm, the nuts of which form a prominent part of its diet. This habitat, while never plentiful, is currently estimated to be around 1.6% of its original cover. The Lear's Macaw also requires a sandstone cliff in which to nest. In order to nest there they apply their saliva to the sandstone which softens it, then excavate small crevasses using their beaks and scrape the dust out of their soon-to-be nests with their feet. Lear's Macaws adapt to their environment in interesting ways. For example, when a group of macaws are searching f... More: http://booksllc.net/?id=1126139 ... Read more

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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles!The Golden-collared Macaw or Yellow-collared Macaw (Primolius auricollis) is a small species of macaw belonging to the parrot family Psittacidae. It is native to central South America. In recent years it has often been placed in the genus Propyrrhura, but this is incorrect as per ICZN rules. Earlier, it has also been placed in the genus Ara, which at present only is used for some of the larger macaws. ... Read more

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This digital document is a journal article from Biological Conservation, published by Elsevier in 2005. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Media Library immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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This study reports on three scarlet macaw (Ara macao) reintroduction projects using hand-raised birds in Peru and Costa Rica. The habitats at the release sites ranged from pristine tropical forest to forest fragments in an agricultural matrix. The combined first-year survival was 74% and the annual post first-year survival was 96%. Survival rates were very high despite a wide range in predator communities. Number of birds released explained 70% of the variation in survival with birds from larger releases having higher survival rates. Behavioral evidence suggests that birds established at the site facilitated survival of later releases. Breeding attempts were recorded at all three sites and hand-raised birds with wild mates successfully fledged young in Peru. Supplemental feeding post-release played an important role in keeping the birds near the release site and facilitating social interactions. This work shows that properly socialized hand-raised macaws can survive and breed in the wild but that ex-pets are not good release candidates. ... Read more

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Chapters: Falkland Islands Wolf, List of Extinct Animals of South America, Glaucous Macaw, Nesoryzomys Darwini, Nesoryzomys Indefessus, Titicaca Orestias, Rhizosomichthys Totae, Theriodictis, Antifer, Protocyon, Eutatus, Atelopus Vogli. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 39. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: The Falkland Islands Wolf (Dusicyon australis), also known as the Warrah and occasionally as the Falkland Islands Dog, Falkland Islands Fox or Antarctic Wolf, was the only native land mammal of the Falkland Islands. This endemic canid became extinct in 1876 (on West Falkland island), the first known canid to have gone extinct in historical times. It was the only modern species in the genus Dusicyon. Original research supposed that the most closely related genus is Lycalopex, including the Culpeo and his domestic forms (perro fueguino, perro yagán), which itself has been introduced to the Falkland Islands in modern times. But 2009 research conducted by a scientific team directed by Graham J. Slater, a post-doctoral researcher at the University of California, Los Angeles, confirmed that the Falkland Island wolf's closest living relative is actually the Maned Wolf (Chrysocyon brachyurus) - an unusually long-legged, fox-like South American canid, which it separated from about 6.7 million years ago. It was known from both West and East Falkland, but it is unknown if the varieties were much differentiated. The fur of the Falkland Islands Wolf had a tawny colour. The tip of the tail was white. The diet is unknown. Due to the absence of native rodents on the Falklands, its diet probably consisted of ground-nesting birds such as geese and penguins, grubs and insects, as well as seashore scavenging. It was sometimes said to have dwelt in burrows. Illustration of Dusicyon culpaeus from Zoolo...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=396345 ... Read more

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Chapters: King Vulture, Swainson's Hawk, Yellow-Rumped Warbler, Baltimore Oriole, Great Blue Heron, Scarlet Macaw, Aplomado Falcon, Yellow-Crowned Amazon, Great Kiskadee, Northern Caracara, Little Tinamou, Tropical Parula, Anhinga, White-Tailed Hawk, Rufous-Breasted Hermit, Red-Capped Cardinal, Least Grebe, Channel-Billed Toucan, Pinnated Bittern, White Hawk, Yellow-Headed Caracara, Black-Throated Mango, Striated Heron, Blue-Headed Parrot, Green Hermit, Southern Beardless Tyrannulet, Common Potoo, Oilbird, Ornate Hawk-Eagle, Brown Pelican, Bright-Rumped Attila, Blue-Gray Tanager, Leach's Storm-Petrel, White-Tailed Trogon, Glossy Ibis, White-Tipped Dove, American Pygmy Kingfisher, Purple Honeycreeper, Yellow-Bellied Elaenia, Neotropic Cormorant, Band-Tailed Pigeon, Euler's Flycatcher, Blue-And-White Swallow, Trinidad Piping-Guan, Blue-Backed Manakin, Squirrel Cuckoo, Common Black Hawk, White-Flanked Antwren, Barred Antshrike, Grey-Fronted Dove, Golden-Olive Woodpecker, Cocoa Thrush, Hepatic Tanager, Rufous-Tailed Jacamar, Short-Tailed Swift, White-Necked Jacobin, Ruby-Topaz Hummingbird, Blue-Crowned Motmot, Little Cuckoo, White-Tailed Kite, Bearded Bellbird, Snowy Egret, Plain-Brown Woodcreeper, Green Honeycreeper, Ferruginous Pygmy-Owl, Lesser Nighthawk, Ruddy Ground-Dove, Little Blue Heron, Golden-Headed Manakin, Giant Cowbird, Crested Oropendola, Rufous-Vented Chachalaca, Striped Cuckoo, Southern Rough-Winged Swallow, Rufous-Breasted Wren, White-Lined Tanager, Long-Billed Starthroat, Great Antshrike, Agami Heron, Horned Screamer, Violaceous Trogon, Green-Throated Mango, Yellow-Crowned Night Heron, Grey Hawk, Savanna Hawk, Turquoise Tanager, South American Yellow Oriole, Boat-Billed Flycatcher, Green-Rumped Parrotlet, Violaceous Euphonia, Bare-Eyed Thrush, White-Tailed Tropicbird, Spectacled Owl, Black Hawk-Eagle, Saffron Finch, Lesser Swallow-Tailed Swift, Common Ground Dove, Black-Faced Antthrush, Little Hermit, Crimson-C...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=408198 ... Read more

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Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Not illustrated. Excerpt: Falco readei Brodkorb, 1959Milvago readei (Brodkorb, 1959) The Yellow-headed Caracara, Milvago chimachima, is a bird of prey in the family Falconidae. It is found in tropical and subtropical South America and the southern portion of Central America. Unlike the Falco falcons in the same family, the caracaras are not fast-flying aerial hunters, but are rather sluggish and often scavengers. The Yellow-headed Caracara is 4146 cm (1618 in) cm long and weighs 325 g (11.5 oz) on average. The female is larger than the male, weighing 310360 g (1113 oz), against his 280330 g (9.912 oz). It is broad-winged and long-tailed, somewhat resembling a small Buteo. The adult has a buff head, with a black streak behind the eye, and buff underparts. The upperparts are brown with distinctive pale patches on the flight feathers of the wings, and the tail is barred cream and brown. The sexes are similar, but the head and underparts of immature birds have dense brown mottling. The voice of this species is a characteristic screamed schreee. This is a bird of savannah, swamps and forest edges. The Yellow-headed Caracara is a resident bird from Costa Rica south through Trinidad and Tobago to northern Argentina (the provinces of Misiones, Chaco, Formosa, Corrientes and Santa Fe). It is typically found from sea level to 1,800 m (5,900 ft), occasionally to 2,600 m (8,500 ft) ASL. In southern South America, it is replaced by a close relative, the Chimango Caracara (Milvago chimango), whose range overlaps with that of the Yellow-headed Caracara in southern Brazil, northern Argentina, Paraguay and Uruguay. A larger and stouter paleosubspecies, Milvago chimachima readei, occurred in Florida and possibly elsewhere during the Late Pleistocene, some tens of thou... More: http://booksllc.net/?id=1857222 ... Read more

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Chapters: Scarlet Macaw, Military Macaw, Blue-And-Yellow Macaw, Red-And-Green Macaw, Blue-Throated Macaw, Cuban Red Macaw, Saint Croix Macaw, Chestnut-Fronted Macaw, Red-Fronted Macaw, Great Green Macaw, Red-Tailed Blue-And-Yellow Macaw, Martinique Macaw, Jamaican Green-And-Yellow Macaw, Jamaican Red Macaw. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 70. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: The Scarlet Macaw (Ara macao) is a large, colorful macaw. It is native to humid evergreen forests in the American tropics. Range extends from extreme south-eastern Mexico to Amazonian Peru, Bolivia and Brazil in lowlands up to 500 m (1,640 ft) (at least formerly) up to 1,000 m (3,281 ft). It has been widely extirpated by habitat destruction and capture for the parrot trade, but locally it remains fairly common. Formerly it ranged north to southern Tamaulipas. It can still be found on the island of Coiba. It is the national bird of Honduras. It is about 81 centimetres (32 in) long, of which more than half is the pointed, graduated tail typical of all macaws. The average weight is about 1 kilogram (2.2 lb). The plumage is mostly scarlet, but the rump and tail-covert feathers are light blue, the greater upperwing coverts are yellow, the upper sides of the flight feathers of the wings are dark blue as are the ends of the tail feathers, and the undersides of the wing and tail flight feathers are dark red with metallic gold iridescence. Some individuals may have green in the wings. Three subspecies present varying widths in their yellow wing band. There is bare white skin around the eye and from there to the bill. Tiny white feathers are contained on the face patch. The upper mandible is mostly pale horn in color and the lower is black. The only difference between ages is that young birds have dark eyes, and adults ...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=944781 ... Read more

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This scarce antiquarian book is a selection from Kessinger Publishings Legacy Reprint Series. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment to protecting, preserving, and promoting the worlds literature. Kessinger Publishing is the place to find hundreds of thousands of rare and hard-to-find books with something of interest for everyone! ... Read more

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Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: Lear's Macaw, Araripe Manakin, Band-Tailed Hornero, Pale-Winged Trumpeter, Sulphur-Breasted Parakeet, Dark-Winged Trumpeter, White-Tailed Cotinga, Brown-Chested Barbet, Black-And-Gold Cotinga, White-Crested Guan, Hook-Billed Hermit, Velvety Black-Tyrant, Varzea Piculet, Restinga Tyrannulet, Hoffmanns's Woodcreeper, Serra Do Mar Tyrant-Manakin, Indigo Macaw. Excerpt:Araripe Manakin The Araripe Manakin ( Antilophia bokermanni ) is a critically endangered bird from the family of Manakins ( Pipridae ). It was discovered in 1996 and scientifically described in 1998. The species epithet commemorates Brazilian zoologist and wildlife filmmaker Werner Bokermann, who died in 1995. Because of its helmet-like crown it has received the Portuguese name soldadinho-do-araripe which means " Little soldier of Araripe ". This name also associates it with the related, but more widespread, Helmeted Manakin ( Antilophia galeata ) , which is known simply as the soldadinho . Description As typical of most manakins, males and females have a strong sexual dimorphism in the colors of the plumage . As in the Helmeted Manakin, it is a relatively large and long-tailed manakin, with a total length of c. 14.5 centimetres. The strikingly patterned males have a predominantely white plumage. With the exception of the white wing coverts, the wings are black as the tail. From the frontal tuft, over the crown, down to the middle back runs a carmine red patch. The iris is red. The females are mainly olive green and have pale green upperparts. They have a reduced olive green frontal tuft. Distribution This species is endemic to the Chapada do Araripe (Araripe uplands) in the Brazilian state of Ceará in the north eastern region of the country. It is only fifty kilometres long and one kilometre wide and the typical ha... ... Read more