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Best Bird of the Year 2014

10,000 Birds

2014 has been a good year for us at 10,000 Birds. Larry starts us off right with an owl that makes birders drool: I was able to see and photograph many great birds in 2014 but my Best Bird of the Year would have to be the Great Gray Owl , the largest Strix in North America. That’s Redgannet’s BBOTY at the top of the post.

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Birding Inirida, Colombia, a forest so young that birds still have no names, part 1

10,000 Birds

Dubbed the Escape to the Orinoco River Basin of Colombia, this one-week and 250-species long trip uses the riverside city of InĂ­rida as a comfortable single-base to explore the unique mix of birds that occur in the Estrella Fluvial Ramsar site. The River Star is the sixth Ramsar site in Colombia and the first in the Amazon.

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