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Getting Lost in North Sydney

10,000 Birds

I once visited Crooked Tree in Belize for a few days without hitting any of the great spots because I didn’t really know what I was doing. The reserve protects a stand of mahogany swamp that attracts large numbers of nectar feeding birds when they flower in the winter. Birding albatrosses Honeyeaters parrots Sydney'

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They’ve Got an Awful Lot of Birds in Brazil.

10,000 Birds

First Corey gets his life Jabiru in Belize, then I see my lifer in the Pantanal. Favorite Psittacidae: Hyacinth Macaw is one of Brazil’s signature birds (along with the Jabiru) and we had several excellent looks at this stunning, large (the largest parrot in the world according to Cornell’s Neotropical Birds) bird.

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