February 13, 2013. Day of the Ranger of Venezuela.
#diadelguardaparquesdevenezuela # 13 February February 13, 2013. Day of the Ranger of Venezuela. The park rangers protect the most important territories on the planet: the parks.
THE TURPIAL: THE BIRD THAT LOVED A NATION. HISTORY OF HIS DECLARATORY AS VENEZUELA NATIONAL AVE
taken from https://cronistasanfelipe.wordpress.com/ WILLIAM OJEDA GARCIA Venezuelan troupial (Icterus icterus) eating the flower of a Pilosocereus lanuginosus on the island of Bonaire, 50 mi (80 km) northwest of Venezuela in the Dutch Caribbean. In San Felipe one learns incredible things. Talking and singing like birds is something weird, almost impossible to believe, not for Ramón Antonio Urbano who throughout his life was devoted to the investigation of birds. So much was his passion in this enormous work for science reaching to maintain loving ties with the birds, he spoke and sang like them, just as he did with the Amazonian Indians who almost slept on the heights of the trees with them. Something unique in the world, a human being capable of interpreting the feeling of birds. No wonder a prestigious foundation of natural sciences recognized worldwide gave it the name of a bird in homage to Ramón Urbano: Urbano, Urbaneja, Urbanois, that is its scientif...
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