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Ana María Morales Cañizares
@ammcanizares.bsky.social
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Wildlife Biologist & Falconer || Raptors || Birding || Canopy || Sports junkie || I play golf once in a while || Views are my own. Coarse language, reader discretion is advised #WomeninSTEM (she/her)
Colombia 🇨🇴 || USA 🇺🇸
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Just got back from installing another box at Blancaneaux Lodge. A beautiful lodge that is switching from rodenticide use to Evolve Rat birth control and going full Integrated Pest Management with barn owl boxes!
#habitatrestoration #barnowl #birds #birdsofprey #ratpoisoniswildlifepoison
Barn owl box installed Photo of me up in a ladder installing a barn owl box Photo of the group Photo of me on a ladder installing a barn owl box
November 20, 2025 at 11:42 PM
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I can’t seem to keep up with being in Belize and posting here, but Im still gonna try… here goes some of the stuff I’ve been doing!
Lots of barn owl box installations: 1/2

For more info: belizeraptorcenter.org/integrated-p...

#barnowls #birds #birdsofprey #habitatrestoration #habitatloss #Belize
Photo of me on top of bales of hay while installing a barn owl box nest made of a road culvert Selfie with a friend on top of bales of hay while installing a barn owl box nest made of a road culvert Photo of me climbing a tree for the installation of a barn owl box nest made of a road culvert on a big ceiba tree Photo of a barn owl box nest made of a road culvert installed on a big ceiba tree
November 20, 2025 at 1:08 PM
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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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September 4, 2025 at 3:02 AM
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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
August 28, 2025 at 3:37 AM
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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
August 26, 2025 at 5:28 AM
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#Birds #BirdofPrey #ratpoisoniswildlifepoison #raptorsarethesolution 🪶
ammcanizares.bsky.social 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
August 22, 2025 at 7:46 PM
ammcanizares.bsky.social
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
August 22, 2025 at 7:45 PM
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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 Selfie with Temple I Picture with Temple IV in the background
June 28, 2025 at 3:00 PM
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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
June 12, 2025 at 1:12 PM
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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
June 9, 2025 at 3:40 AM
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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
June 7, 2025 at 1:23 PM
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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
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Restore the Road: Support Access, Education, and Conservation
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May 23, 2025 at 8:52 PM
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Getting to work with this gorgeous here!! Loving it! #blackhawkeagle #spizaetustyrannus #birds #raptors #education #Belize
Picture of a Black Hawk-eagle on the glove
May 23, 2025 at 4:36 AM
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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
May 15, 2025 at 12:37 AM
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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
May 13, 2025 at 4:17 PM
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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.
May 11, 2025 at 4:02 PM
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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 🪶
May 9, 2025 at 12:54 AM
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Campesinos that killed these magnificent eagle now protect it, i: nesting area, and its habitat… amazing conservation work from the team!

#raptors #womenindaptorresearch #blackandchestnuteagle #birds
Photo of a framed picture of a juvenile Black-and-chestnut eagle
May 5, 2025 at 2:49 AM
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Happy Star Wars Day!!! This ANA flight is celebrating hardcore! #maythefourth #maythe4th #StarWarsDay
Screenshot of Flight Radar app from a flight Tokyo-Frankfurt from ANA airline with a Star Wars logo on the plane
May 4, 2025 at 1:41 PM
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CW || Bird dying after being caught by a cat

House Wren victim of a freaking outdoor cat… fucking heartbreaking

#Birds #Conservation #keepyourcatsindoors
April 27, 2025 at 2:38 PM
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Ahemmm the protein is escaping the pot… 🐍

Chirique-Flusse tree frog (Boana pugnax)
Chirique-Flusse tree frog perched on the top of a pot
April 25, 2025 at 2:29 PM
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Pink moon looking gorgeous thru my Sigma 150-600… def loving the lens! #pinkmoon
April 13, 2025 at 12:04 AM
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Golden-bellied flycatcher (Myiodynastes hemichrysus)

#Birds #Birding #Colombia 🪶
Picture of a Golden-bellied flycatcher perched on a stump with nesting material in its beak
April 12, 2025 at 8:51 PM
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At 35 m high in a Black-and-chestnut Eagle (Spizaetus isidori) nest tree!! #womeninraptorresearch #womeninstem #raptorresearch #birds #raptors #birdsofprey #treeclimbing #canopy
Selfie with all the gear needed for tree climbing while being in a tree at 35 m high Selfie with friend and coworker Gilder at 35 m high
April 9, 2025 at 11:22 AM
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Funny how suddenly you start voicing your disagreements with your male friends, coworkers, etc.. and according to them you are antagonizing everything they say… no dudes, I was just quite before, now my inner monologue is not staying in my head…
March 30, 2025 at 11:19 PM