10,000 Birds
JANUARY 17, 2024
Ardent readers of this blog would realise by now that I have been chronicling a few days spent in Guyana last year – I felt that a single post or two would invariably exclude far too many sightings of note. Until a small, falcon-like bird darted through the understory. The birds were for the most part playing hard to get, though.
10,000 Birds
DECEMBER 6, 2023
After leaving our hotel in the dark, we arrived at the small dock about half hour after sunrise – making one of many salient points about birding in Guyana: the country is vast! The main target as we drifted downriver was the enigmatic and prehistoric Hoatzin – national bird of Guyana and an absolute treat for the eyes.
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10,000 Birds
MARCH 27, 2024
The millions of stars and galaxies twinkling over the Rupununi Savanna in Guyana seem to reluctantly fade into a gradually lightening sky as the eastern horizon reddens. But we are on the lookout for one of Guyana’s famed giants, the Giant Anteater – which uncharacteristically never showed.
10,000 Birds
MAY 22, 2024
The quiet village of Moco-moco in southwest Guyana was the most southerly point of our sojourn into the landlocked country some months ago. I was excited to land my first Laughing Falcon , a charismatic species that I had been drooling over for years. Much of the land was parched and brown, the vegetation was stunted and windswept.
10,000 Birds
SEPTEMBER 1, 2021
Hudson; and a primer on geological history, including the continuing zoological effects of the “Great American Biotic Interchange”; and a travelogue of an extraordinary river trip through Guyana. English is the official language of Guyana, with a distinctive cadence and idiom.
10,000 Birds
DECEMBER 30, 2021
Actually, they are all the same, single rock, the westernmost piece of the Guyana Shield geological formation, carved into two by the river and further rounded by rains. Instead of a Pterodactyl, we had one rare Orange-breasted Falcon by the mountain top, which greeted us in the scope-view.
10,000 Birds
DECEMBER 4, 2021
Hudson; and a primer on geological history, including the continuing zoological effects of the “Great American Biotic Interchange”; and a travelogue of an extraordinary river trip through Guyana. It’s one of those rare books, full of esoterica and wit, that you wish would not end.
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