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Sam Williams, PhD

The Lora Count

Jan 27, 2007

Wow! Well that was certainly a whirlwind trip to Bonaire. The count preparations went extremely well, as did the count itself. The result: the yellow-shouldered Amazon parrot population on Bonaire has around 650 individuals. That’s a good few more than I expected but of course it is good news. I...

December

Dec 17, 2006

Things in the office are going well. This month I had to give a presentation in the department and before that I wanted to get some statistics done. From the data I collected I can show how the parrots are associated with habitat structure and other species of birds that are present. I’ve also...

November

Nov 18, 2006

Now I’m into my third month back in the UK I am finally getting used to the notion of being indoors virtually all the time! This adaptation is of course helped by the fact that the UK is getting colder and that sitting outside just to have lunch in natural daylight almost leads to a reduced core...

August 26

Aug 26, 2006

The list of things left to do is thankfully getting shorter and wrapping up the project work is going well. This week we tried catching parrots in some high fruit trees with suspended traps but it didn’t work. We also tried catching them by a nest site and we had actually got pictures of the birds...