Category: Birdwatching

James’s Flamingo: High-Flying Filter-Feeder

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This YouTube video was produced by the American Bird Conservancy.

A flock of pink flamingos atop a mountain sounds like some sort of weird hallucination … After all, don’t these long-legged wading birds live in low-lying wetlands, like the American Flamingo?

Incredibly, there are three flamingo species that make their homes high in the Andes Mountains of South America: the Andean, Chilean, and James’s Flamingos. The James’s Flamingo is the smallest and rarest of these, and was first described to science from Chile in 1886. Also known as the Puna Flamingo in recognition of its high-altitude habitat, the James’s Flamingo

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Marsh Migration Primer

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This YouTube video was produced by The Cornell Lab of Ornithology.

Along the South Atlantic Coast of the United States, seas are rising at accelerating rates and salt marsh ecosystems cannot keep pace without a pathway to higher ground. The South Atlantic Salt Marsh Initiative (SASMI) has created a regional plan that is the pathway to the protection, restoration and migration of salt marsh.

In this primer, dive into what is happening regionally and why allowing and creating pathways for marsh to migrate is vital to its survival, as well as our own. This is the first video in

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Marsh Migration: Restoring Habitat Connectivity

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This YouTube video was produced by The Cornell Lab of Ornithology.

Along the South Atlantic Coast of the United States, seas are rising at accelerating rates and salt marsh ecosystems cannot keep pace without a pathway to higher ground. The South Atlantic Salt Marsh Initiative (SASMI) has created a regional plan that is the pathway to the protection, restoration and migration of salt marsh.

In Restoring Habitat Connectivity, see on the ground efforts taking place in coastal Florida – once ditched and dying marshes are seeing restored tidal flow and successful connection to already protected uplands. This is the

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