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Birding Inirida, Colombia, or river dolphins and hoatzins, part 2

10,000 Birds

Am I over-confident in my thinking that we were so interesting that they were investigating us for a good half an hour, until we moved further upriver? Instead of a Pterodactyl, we had one rare Orange-breasted Falcon by the mountain top, which greeted us in the scope-view. Other than that, I have no explanation what were they doing.

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Tribes and Birds of the Lower Omo Valley by Adam Riley

10,000 Birds

Heading south on a good surfaced road, we made slow progress through the herds of cattle, donkeys and goats that thronged the highway, until we finally reached the land of the Konso. Quality time was spent with a friendly Hamar family at their homestead of grass huts surrounding their cattle corral.

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