Blue-fronted Amazon Project

Category: Field Work, Nestlings, Pantanal | Date: Nov 20 2007 | By: admin

The end of the reproductive season of the Blue Fronted Parrot is approaching at Pantanal, MS – Brazil. Many nestlings have already done their first flight, while others are still in the nests and should be flying on the next couple of weeks. We (Glaucia, Vandir and the extern Jackson) are still in Pantanal. We have started filming the behavior of the nestlings, besides doing the biometry to verify their development.

Vandir and a nestling almost ready to do its first flight.

Glaucia is filming the behavior of the nestlings.

Glaucia doing biometry in a nestling.

These three guys are getting ready for their first flight.

We have also installed a radio transmitter in some nestlings to accompany their dislodgement and survival after the flight.

Glaucia and a parrot with radio transmitter.

Nestling with radio transmitter.

This one had already done its first flight and has a radio transmitter.

Glaucia doing census of parrot population. Soon it will be completely flood!

This is also the month when start raining, and Pantanal begins to flood. It is also the period when our field work starts to get harder, because we can only travel with a 4×4 car. But it is also a wonderful period for Pantanal and the animals that live here, because the drought of the last months also brought the wildfires.
This way, we keep doing our work, hoping that the date that we are creating could contribute for the Blue Fronted Amazon Parrot and Pantanal’s conservation.