article thumbnail

Rancho Naturalista Lodge, Costa Rica, or in the Land of Coffee and Chocolate

10,000 Birds

Black-bellied Whistling-Ducks , Muscovy Ducks and Blue-winged Teals were around us, together with Green , Great and Little Blue Herons , Cattle and Great White Egrets , Black-crowned and Yellow-crowned Night-Herons , plus one locally rare Pinnated Bittern in the floating vegetation, as well as several dozen Neotropical Cormorants.

article thumbnail

Brazil’s Pantanal: A Birding Spectacle

10,000 Birds

The star of such huge concentrations is the massive Jabiru , towering over a diverse collection of South American waterbirds such as Sunbittern , Plumbeous Ibis , and Southern Screamer. Alas, it was over too soon. Screamers are most closely related to waterfowl such as ducks and geese.

Brazil 165
article thumbnail

Collaborative List – July 2018

10,000 Birds

Traditionally, the slow season, but the beats have mopped their collective brow and outdone their previous efforts. Veliko blato lake NR / Mika Alas fish farm–IBA Uš?e Veliko blato lake NR / Mika Alas fish farm–IBA Uš?e Veliko blato lake NR / Mika Alas fish farm–IBA Uš?e And so to summer. 10 May 2018.

2018 101