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Why Red-ruffed Fruitcrow?

10,000 Birds

Tropical birding demands tropical birds, those families and genera unique to their latitudes rather than shared via migration across various climate zones. But these tropical ecosystems also harbor families that remind us by their very presence just how close we’ve come to the Equator and how far we are from the poles.

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Twenty Hummingbirds To See Before You Die

10,000 Birds

As it streaks across the Andean skies of Bolivia and Argentina with its flashy tail, its not hard to see how this bird got the name “comet&#. These high-flyers from the montane grasslands of Ecuador, Peru and Colombia should not be missed on a trip to these countries. Coming in at no. 19 is the celestial Red-tailed Comet.

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