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Birding Inirida, Colombia: practicalities, part 3

10,000 Birds

Founded in 1963, the municipal population of mostly indigenous people has reached 31,000 by 2018, of which about 11,000 in the town itself. Pescado moqueado, a fish cooked by steam from a clay stove, at the Sabanitas Community. The food was tasty and hearty. Photo by Juan Carlos. In general, local, river fish was unbeatable.

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Peterson Field Guide to Mushrooms of North America, Second Edition: A Field Guide Review

10,000 Birds

The guide has been expertly, even lovingly revised, expanded and updated (as the authors’ names indicate, this is largely a family affair). To get an idea of how many mushroom species are around us, in 2018, the journal Mycologia published a checklist of North American fungi. 28, 2018, [link]. McKnight and Vera B.