For the second year in a row Peru is the winner of the Global Big Day! Organized by the Cornell Lab of Ornithology, the event aims to increase global awareness of birds by asking birders to spend one day searching for as many birds as possible. This year’s Big Day was May 14, and over

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I and fellow grad student Felicity Newell have begun the 2016 field season! After spending a week in Lima finalizing permits, networking, and braving the city’s horrendous traffic we met up with Peruvian colleagues in Cusco as part of a bird banding workshop we helped to instruct. The course was jointly organized by Corbidi and

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I am a graduate student in the Department of Biology and Florida Museum of Natural History at the University of Florida where I study the ecology and community assembly of birds in high elevation cloud forest fragments in Peru. I am lucky to work out of the Ordway Lab for Ecosystem Conservation with a fantastic

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