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Ana María Morales Cañizares @ammcanizares.bsky.social · Sep 4

Nature people! Please helps us by donating (whatever you can) to our Poison Free Belize Educational Campaign! We are almost at 2 grand and in this first phase we are asking for $6,000 USD, so every cent counts!

Link: gofund.me/5e442bf9

#birds
#birdsofprey
#raptors
#birding
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Ana María Morales Cañizares @ammcanizares.bsky.social · Aug 28

Barn Owls are one of the species that suffer the most rodenticide poisoning. We’re killing the best weapon we have against rodents w/ our inability to use proper pest control management. Help us change that by donating to our campaign #birds #birdsofprey #ratpoisoniswildlifepoison
gofund.me/5e442bf9

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Ana María Morales Cañizares @ammcanizares.bsky.social · Aug 26

Hey people!!! Here is the image of our campaign! Please consider donating to our cause so we can educate the public about the dangers of rat poison!
#birds #birdsofprey #raptors 🪶
gofund.me/5e442bf9

A design that says Poison Affects All and has the heads (starting up left) coyote, jaguar, tayra, next row a roadside hawk, ornate hawk-eagle, white eagle, next row spectacled owl, mottled owl and barn owl, and final row boa, pygmy owl (holding in its talons a poisoned dead rat) and black-tailed indigo

Poison Free Belize bumper sticker design with a flying Barn Owl holding a poisoned dead rat and our White Hawk

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Ana María Morales Cañizares @ammcanizares.bsky.social · Aug 22

#Birds #BirdofPrey #ratpoisoniswildlifepoison #raptorsarethesolution 🪶

Ana María Morales Cañizares @ammcanizares.bsky.social · Aug 22

Hey guys, im here to ask for your help! I was recently in Belize collaborating w/ the Belize Raptor Center & they've started a massive campaign to reduce & eventually stop the use of rodenticides in the country.
Here is the link for the crowdfunding if you guys wanna help!
gofund.me/f2fdec80
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Donate to Help support our Poison Free Belize Educational Campaign ♥️, organized by Sarah Mann

Hi, my name is Sarah, and I am the founding director of the Bel… Sarah Mann needs your support for Help support our Poison Free Belize Educational Campaign ♥️

gofund.me

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Ana María Morales Cañizares @ammcanizares.bsky.social · Aug 22

This is Ixchel, a White Hawk that came into the center w/ rodenticide poisoning, surprisingly she survived but she's not releasable due to neurological symptoms cause by the poisoning. She's now one of the faces of this campaign & we hope her story will be the one that changes the use of rat poison

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Ana María Morales Cañizares @ammcanizares.bsky.social · Aug 22

Hey guys, im here to ask for your help! I was recently in Belize collaborating w/ the Belize Raptor Center & they've started a massive campaign to reduce & eventually stop the use of rodenticides in the country.
Here is the link for the crowdfunding if you guys wanna help!
gofund.me/f2fdec80
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Donate to Help support our Poison Free Belize Educational Campaign ♥️, organized by Sarah Mann

Hi, my name is Sarah, and I am the founding director of the Bel… Sarah Mann needs your support for Help support our Poison Free Belize Educational Campaign ♥️

gofund.me

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Ana María Morales Cañizares @ammcanizares.bsky.social · Jun 28

Oh beautiful, sadly the Orange-breasted Falcons had already fledge so I couldn’t see them but the Bat Falcon made an appearance as well as the Spider Monkeys!

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Ana María Morales Cañizares @ammcanizares.bsky.social · Jun 28

It is!!

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Ana María Morales Cañizares @ammcanizares.bsky.social · Jun 28

Two weeks ago I was fortunate to be able to go to Tikal… words cannot express how magical that place is. Totally a must if you are nearby! #Guatemala #Tikal #Anthropology

Selfie with the Temple III, the Temple of the Jaguar Priest

Picture with the Temple V, second tallest in Tikal

Picture with Temple IV in the background

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Ana María Morales Cañizares @ammcanizares.bsky.social · Jun 13

🤣🤣🤣

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Ana María Morales Cañizares @ammcanizares.bsky.social · Jun 12

Not all is sad tho, she will stay with us and teach the public, especially the young public, about the harms of rodenticides for wildlife. #raptors #birds #ratpoisoniswildlifepoison 4/4

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Ana María Morales Cañizares @ammcanizares.bsky.social · Jun 12

After months of care she went into a flight enclosure but we realized she doesn’t see too well, so we started training her to make sure she is non-releasable and sadly she will not go back to the wild. You can see how she can’t calculate the distance #raptors #birds #ratpoisoniswildlifepoison 3/4

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Ana María Morales Cañizares @ammcanizares.bsky.social · Jun 12

When she came in we were able to get an IV and start pumping fluids back into her cause she was bleeding badly… the blood that came out of the IV stayed on the table for almost 2 hours without ever coagulating… that how bad it was… #raptors #birds #ratpoisoniswildlifepoison 2/4

Photo of Ixchel the White Hawk on the glove during a manning session

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Ana María Morales Cañizares @ammcanizares.bsky.social · Jun 12

Let me introduce you to Ixchel, she is a gorgeous White Hawk that came to us (Belize Raptor Center) after being found poisoned with rodenticide… #raptors #birds #ratpoisoniswildlifepoison 1/4

Photo of Ixchel the White Hawk with a hood in a perch

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Ana María Morales Cañizares @ammcanizares.bsky.social · Jun 9

Thanks!!

Ana María Morales Cañizares @ammcanizares.bsky.social · Jun 9

Hey bird peeps! If you read Birding Magazine from the American Birding Association you will find that in this month’s issue there is an article about my work! Enjoy! #birds #birding #raptors #raptorconservation #womeninstem

www.aba.org/birding-onli...

Picture of the first page of an article named From Green to Blue: Raptor Conservation in Colombia. It was the face of a Black-and-chestnut Eagle as the background

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Ana María Morales Cañizares @ammcanizares.bsky.social · Jun 7

Last week I had one of the best if not THE BEST experiences of my life! I got to witness the banding of an Orange-breasted falcon chick and got to take some kinda decent pics of the adults! Belize has been so good to me! #birds #raptors #Belize 🪶

Picture of a female Orange-breasted falcon (Falco deiroleucus) through the foliage

Picture of a perched Orange-breasted falcon (Falco deiroleucus)

Selfie with the chick after the banding, health check, and blood draw

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Ana María Morales Cañizares @ammcanizares.bsky.social · May 23

Peeps!!! Im currently helping the Belize Raptor Center and we are doing an online auction of some amazing hotel deals! With this you will help us and if you win you can come visit us and the beautiful country of Belize! #birds #raptors #raptorrehabilitation #wildlife

givebutter.com/c/SAMHBT

Talons and Tacos

Restore the Road: Support Access, Education, and Conservation

givebutter.com

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Ana María Morales Cañizares @ammcanizares.bsky.social · May 23

Getting to work with this gorgeous here!! Loving it! #blackhawkeagle #spizaetustyrannus #birds #raptors #education #Belize

Picture of a Black Hawk-eagle on the glove

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Ana María Morales Cañizares @ammcanizares.bsky.social · May 15

Last week we went to the Black-and-chestnut Eagle (Spizaetus isidori) nest we have been monitoring for the past 4 years, we climbed the tree, picked prey remains from the juvenile & we changed cameras for the new reproductive season.
#womeninstem #birds #womeninraptorresearch #raptorresearch 🪶

Photo of a juvenile Black-and-chestnut Eagle perched

Photo of a juvenile Black-and-chestnut eagle perched near the nest

Photo of the team while celebrating our good work

Selfie at 40-45 m above the ground, in a Black-and-chestnut Eagle nest tree, with a camera in the background

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Ana María Morales Cañizares @ammcanizares.bsky.social · May 13

Fingers crossed that the new bae is a good partner and they are successful in fledging the chicks!

Ana María Morales Cañizares @ammcanizares.bsky.social · May 13

Can’t wait to go looking for the Orange-breasted falcon!

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Ana María Morales Cañizares @ammcanizares.bsky.social · May 13

Off to a new adventure!!!! Belize awaits and it’s gonna be two amazing months! #raptors #raptorrehabilitation #raptor #birds #birdsofprey

Picture of the airport runway, a gas truck and an Avianca plane taking off

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Ana María Morales Cañizares @ammcanizares.bsky.social · May 11

Happy Mother’s Day!!! #birds #raptors

A Happy Mothers Day card with a flying Black-and-chestnut Eagle and two red flowers in the corners, that says: Dear Moms: thank you for always being there for us.

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Ana María Morales Cañizares @ammcanizares.bsky.social · May 9

Changed cams in a Black-and-chestnut Eagle nest in the Andean foothills of the Colombian Amazon. The juvie was around all day flying by until she stopped for a couple of minutes to check out my work… #raptors #womeninraptorresearch #womeninstem #birds 🪶

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