The parrots of Southeastern Peru crave an earthy delicacy: dirt. At the Colorado clay lick, a cliff face rising above the Tambopata River in the western Amazon Basin, parrots — often hundreds at a ...

If you visit Peru, you may be lucky enough to witness one of nature’s most colorful spectacles: hundreds of parrots of up to 18 species congregating on the clay cliffs -- known as clay licks -- ...

Macaws have been identified as having major ecotourist value: They are large and bright, so even a gringo unschooled in the rainforest can spot them, and they hang out in predictable locations — clay ...

ECUADORAN AMAZON —Watching parrots in their homeland beats seeing them in pet stores or zoos, hands down. Their brilliant green colors trimmed with patterns of blues, reds and yellows fit perfectly ...

When a massive road project connected the ports of Brazil to the shipping docks of Peru in 2011, spanning the South American continent, conservationists predicted widespread impacts on wildlife living ...

Several species of parrots in Southeastern Peru regularly gather at a cliff face in the Amazon basin to eat clay. So do other animals, including... The parrots of Southeastern Peru crave an earthy ...