10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 17, 2024

My good friend Hilton and I wanted to go out to Mogri das Cruzes in Brazil to try and see the São Paulo Marsh Antwren. His collection was impressive and overwhelmingly illegal so he will remain unnamed too. We glimpsed a lot of presumably good birds flying away from us. It is possible to clutch victory from the jaws of defeat.

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Critter News

MARCH 13, 2009

Police said it was the biggest single operation in the past decade against rampant illegal wildlife traffic in the South American country. Brazil is one of the world's hotspots for animal smuggling because of its rich diversity of animals. Tags: wildlife crime smuggling brazil trafficking latin america.

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10,000 Birds

JULY 3, 2018

Credits: Red-ruffed Fruitcrow, Brazil, by Francesco Veronesi, used under Creative Commons license; Spangled Cotinga by Mathias Appel, Flickr, public domain. That’s pretty much the reaction of anybody hearing this for the first time. There are other questions though, and Johnson patiently teases them out.

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