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Monday 30 January 2017

Aruba’s Bird Calendar Debuts at the Hilton Aruba Caribbean Resort & Casino

PALM BEACH - The gardens
at the Hilton Aruba Carib-
bean Resort & Casino were
the perfect backdrop for
the 2017 Bird Calendar
reveal, published by the
Aruba Birdlife Conserva-
tion, and sponsored by the
resort, the second year in a
row.
Resort General Manager
Hans Georg Roehrbein
was proud to hang the
first calendar, fresh off the
press, in his office.
Greg Peterson, the Presi-
dent of Aruba Birdlife Con-
servation reports there are
236 registered bird species
on Aruba with just two that
are endemic to the island,
the Shoco, Burrowing Owl,
and the Prikichi, Brown
Throated Parakeet, both
featured in starring roles in
the calendar.
The calendar will be avail-
able for sale here Hucha-
da Bakery, Santa Cruz, and
at Best Deal in Paradera, contributed photographs The calendar also includes book by the name of Bird contains full page photo-
for Awg 15. The members to the calendar, among some of Peterson’s famous Wildlife of Aruba, on De- graphs of over two hun-
of the Aruba Birdlife Con- them their youngest, 12 images. He just published cember 7, 2016, available dred species of birds taken
servation foundation also year old Sven Oversteegen. a hardcover coffee-table on Amazon.com. The book in Aruba’s wildlife.q