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Macaw Clay Lick in Tambopata Peru Despite the fact that western scientists have known about clay lick use for over thirty years, our knowledge of clay lick use is still far from complete. In general there is still debate over why birds use the clay licks. While there is documented evidence that the clay in the soil ...
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Puerto Maldonado is a city in Southeastern Peru in the Amazon forest 55 kilometres (34 mi) west of the Bolivian border on the confluence of the Tambopata and Madre de Dios River, a tributary of the Amazon River. It is the capital of the Madre de Dios Region. Nearby are the Manú National Park, Tambopata National Reser...
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Macaws eat a variety of foods including fruits, palm fruits, nuts, seeds, leaves, flowers, and stems. Wild species may forage widely, over 100 km (62 mi) for some of the larger species such as Ara araurana (blue & yellow macaw) and Ara ambigua (great green macaw), in...-
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Nearbynature photo contest: I live in Peru and took this photo of a large macaw clay lick in the Amazon rainforest. Every morning hundreds of macaws and parrots come to the clay lick to eat clay which helps neutralize their bodies of toxins that they may have ingested from eating other plants and also gives them th...
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The world's largest known mineral clay lick, where hundreds of parrots and macaws of up to 15 species congregate daily to ingest the detoxifying clay, is located less than 500 meters from Tambopata Research Center. The 1994 National Geographic article on macaws begins with a vivid description of their activity at the ...
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The world's largest known mineral clay lick, where hundreds of parrots and macaws of up to 15 species congregate daily to ingest the detoxifying clay, is located less than 500 meters from the Tambopata Research Center. The 1994 National Geographic article on macaws begins with a vivid description of their activity a...
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