This February, second grade Lake Anne Elementary teacher, Consuelo Bachelet, traveled to Nicaragua for ten days as part of the Smithsonian Migratory Bird Center’s Bridging the Americas Program ...

It did not take long to confirm the bird trade was totally illegal. Nicaragua has in the past few years woken up to the importance of its rich wildlife and has taken several steps to protect it. So ...

This natural spectacle of migratory birds led Nicaragua to organize the 1st International Bird Festival between Nov. 79. During this season, flocks of more than 100 migratory species can be ...

the birds’ foreheads were red instead of their natural orange. Some of you may be asking if it is even legal in Nicaragua to sell wild captured animals and the answer is that it is not. A sad reality ...

Traffickers hunt it on the banks of Nicaragua’s San Juan River. Captured birds are often transported for sale to San Salvador more than 1000 kilometers away. From there some birds are moved ...