Sarah Faegre

Manu’s First Attempt at Fledging

May 20, 2008

The newly-fledged Blue-throated Macaw, Goliath, is improving his flight skills bit by bit.  Now his little brother Manu thinks he’s ready to take the leap…

December 23rd 2007

On the evening of the 21st I located Goliath with his parents, perched amid the leaves of a small tree at the east edge of...

Want to Experience the Life of a field biologist, working with wild Blue-throated Macaws?

May 13, 2008

I have been back from the Bolivian savannahs for about 2 months now and since my return I have been posting my journal entries, bit by bit, on my WPT blog site.  These entries come straight from my field journal, which was my only writing option for the 3 months that I worked in the field.  I will...

Alone on Isla Chiquita, listening to the Rare-maned Wolf

Dec 23, 2007

I spend a few days alone at the camp, while Vicente helps caravan all the other volunteers across savannahs and rivers to an estancia on higher ground. The four of them, Carlos, Sarah D., Matthew and Jose, have finished their time with the project and will wait to be picked up by a small plane,...

To Fly or To Fall

Dec 20, 2007

Goliath is out of the nest, and I was lucky enough to witness the event!

19 December 2007

It is 6 a.m. when I arrive at the blind.  I have been watching this nest every day for a month now and for the past week Goliath, the larger of the two chicks, has been poking his head out of the cavity...