Dear friends and followers, we are really glad to share this great news with you!!
We have just received another donation to the Project – a GPS Garmin gpsmap 62st! The GPS came all way from Scotland, and it was one of the items in our Wish List.
David and Taiana (and Luana), thank you very much!! 🙂 🙂 🙂
It was a great pleasure to have Yara Barros, the Technical Director of the Parque das Aves, visiting the Blue-fronted Amazon Project in the Pantanal. She joined us in one of our field trips to monitor the birds in the Pantanal.
The Parque das Aves is one of our main partners, and we are extremely thankful for their collaboration along these years. You can check here the Facebook of the Parque das Aves!
Thank you very much Yara for your visit, and Parque das Aves for your support to the Blue-fronted Amazon Project!
Gláucia, her team and the parrots are thankful!
A very nice article about the Blue-Fronted Amazon Project was just published at the latest edition of the FlockTalk (the World Parrot Trust’s eNewsletter). In this article, the veterinarian and naturalist Dr. David Perpinan tells his experience at one of our field trips.
You can check the entire article at the FlockTalk website (October, Issue 98).
Thank you David for the article, we loved it! 🙂 Our team and the parrots are very thankful for you collaboration with the project!
All the nestlings of blue-fronted amazon fledged last month and left the nests, as their reproductive season came to an end. So this month we focused on monitoring the reproduction of two other psittacine species: the nanday parakeet (Aratinga nenday) and the blue-crowned parakeet (Thectocercus acuticaudatus.
Nestlings of nanday parakeet
Nestling of blue-crowned parakeet
Many of the nests of these species are very hard to gain access to, as the entrance of the nest cavity are very small.
Vandir and Pedro monitoring a hard-to-access cavity of nanday parakeet
Feather samples were collected from the nestling for future DNA testing and sexing.
Besides that, we also did the routine activities of the Project, such as searching for new nests and observation of the behavior and activities of many psittacine species.
Vandir checking for a possible nest
Daily monitoring of the activities of the psittacines
During this field trip we had a surprise: we found a dead snake incide a nest of nanday parakeet! One of our hypothesis is that the snake tried to feed on the nestlings, and the brave parents killed it!!!
Dead snake in a nanday parakeet nest
Dead snake in a nanday parakeet nest
Another great surprise was the encounter with an amazing jaguar during our morning work! It was incredible!!! The Pantanal is still gorgeous, with its unique beauty and surprises! 🙂
Jaguar in the Pantanal (Panthera onca)
Dear friends, we are very happy to share with this great news with you!!
We have just received another donation for the Project – a brand new compact digital camera (it was one of the items in our Wish List)!! The donation came all the way from the UK, from one of our followers, Coll. And it came just in time – we were in need of a new camera to monitor the nests this breeding season, as our old one stopped working some time ago.
Thank you so very much Coll!! 🙂 🙂 🙂 🙂 🙂 🙂 🙂 🙂 🙂
Our donated camera has arrived!! (Image: Veronica Ramirez)
Dear friends,
we are excited to share with you our first footage inside a Blue-fronted Amazon’s nest, using our recently donated inspection camera! 🙂 There were two nestlings in the nest, resting quietly. You can check the video using this you tube link!
If you also love Amazon birds, please check our Wish List on ways you can help the Project!
Inside a parrot’s nest. Image captured using our inspection camera!
Dear friends,
earlier this month we had a special visit in one of our field trips! Victor Moriyama is a photographer (Revista Horizonte Geográfico), and he came along with us to check on the birds. Check out some of the amazing pictures he took! 🙂
Gláucia with a Blue-fronted Amazon nestling (Image: Victor Moriyama)
Gláucia and Vandir measuring a nestling (Image: Victor Moriyama)
Glaucia measuring the crop of a nestling (Image: Victor Moriyama)
Nestling of Blue-fronted Amazon being weighed (Image: Victor Moriyama)
Sadly, this is also the part of the year where the illegal animal trade of Blue-fronted Amazon is more intense… 😦 This makes us so upset… and gives us even more will to keep fighting for these birds and the Pantanal! If this also upsets you, please share this post with all your friends in your social media! The more we are, the more we can do for them!
Nestlings seized on October 2014, in Bataguassu/MS.
(Image: Victor Moriyama)
Gláucia and team
On the 20th and 21st of October, the Blue-fronted Amazon Project/Econs started visiting urban schools in Campo Grande – Mato Grosso do Sul. A total of 310 children and teens had the chance to see our puppet theatre “On the wings of the wind”. They were from two different schools, the Polo Agrícola Governados Arnaldo Estevão de Figueredo and the Polo Isauro Bento Nogueira.
In both occasions, Larissa Lopes/Cia das Artes told them the story of the Manuel-Verdadeiro (our main puppet character! 🙂 ), made dolls out of tree branches, and played with them traditional plays. Both kids and teachers welcomed all the activities and happily took part on them. The presentations will continue until the end of this year, until ALL the rural schools in Campo Grande are visited! And next year, will be the turn for the urban schools! So keep following us!
Since 2013, our puppet play “On the wings of the wind” has been bringing happiness to many children in Mato Grosso do Sul State! This time it was at Bonito, with presentation at different locations during the Bonito’s Bird Week (6 to 10 of October), promoted by the Secretaria Municipal de Meio Ambiente along with the Neotropical Foundation of Brazil and local partners.
During this week, the play was also presented to the non-profit organizations that care for children in need at Bonito. We first visited the Instituto Internacional Visão de Vida (Blog and Facebook), where about 100 kids and teens, from 6 to 18 years, watched the play along with their teachers and mentors.
Then, we went to the Instituto Família Legal, where 20 children and teens, and their teachers, took part on all the activities.
Lastly, we visited the Fundação Vida Bonito – Casa da Criança, where seven children that live there had the opportunity to watch the pupper theater, play together and colour our mascot “lorito” (which means little parrot), kindly created by the artist and friend of the Project, Ronald Rosa.
Continue acompanhando as atividades de sensibilização de crianças e adolescentes de nosso projeto! Vamos levar alegria e informações sobre os papagaios e Pantanal pois acreditamos que todos podem ser aliados da conservação!
Keep following our awareness campaign with kids and teens! We aim to enlighten their day while sharing info about the Blue-fronted Amazons, and we believe everyone can be an allied for the conservation!
