10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 17, 2024

You want to do some serious birding? First, he was mostly focused on the mammals. And yes, Sable Antilope is very cool, but birds are sub-zero cool! And yes, Sable Antilope is very cool, but birds are sub-zero cool! And it was birds we came for, so his customer service wasn’t great. You need a guide!

Birds 234

Birds Mozambique Zimbabwe Mammals 234

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 30, 2017

Way down among the Brazillians, Coffee beans grow by the billions, So they’ve got to find those extra cups to fill, They’ve got an awful lot of coffee in Brazil.… The Coffee Song lyrics ran like an earworm through my head as I prepared for my September trip to Brazil. Oh my gosh! I shouldn’t have been surprised.

Brazil 160

Brazil Birds Los Angeles Tigers 160

10,000 Birds

JUNE 29, 2023

The (Big) Year that Flew By: Twelve Months, Six Continents, and the Ultimate Birding Record – which is the book’s full title, or Arjan Dwarshuis’s Big Year, as I prefer to call it shortly, is a highly anticipated and a long awaited travelogue of the author’s 2016 race against time across 40 countries in his attempt to break the world birding record.

Papua New Guinea 258

Papua New Guinea Guinea Suriname South America 258

10,000 Birds

MARCH 9, 2023

Here’s an example: born and bred in Europe, I do not know much about the tropics, especially the bird-rich New World tropics. Yes, I had local bird books, but only during my second tour of Costa Rica did I finally buy a mammal guide, and only after my trip to Colombian Amazon did I obtain a habitat guide.

Costa Rica 247

Costa Rica Cougars Mammals Madagascar 247

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 16, 2021

Have you ever birded a place so young that birds still have no names? At first we followed one trail, without success, then we followed the other one – the same happened – and when we were ready to enter the boat, to cross the river arm behind the sandbank, there it was, the bird with no name.” Thamnophilus sp. Thamnophilus sp.

Colombia 278

Colombia Birds Fish Venezuela 278

10,000 Birds

JULY 19, 2018

Birders follow different patterns of bird migration and their local activities and travel accordingly. It illustrates the bird richness per country. Shown as a list, it looks like this: Less than 200 bird species: Antarctica; oceanic islands. Focus on the wider triple border area – the birding top of the world.).

Equatorial Guinea 207

Equatorial Guinea Costa Rica Guyana Central African Republic 207

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 3, 2012

Although 99% is privately owned, the Pantanal (swamp in Spanish) was my favorite place in Brazil. It is hard to pick one single item that stands out in Panatanal, let alone one single bird. Hundreds-of-thousands of cattle share the swampy fields with the most exotic reptiles, mammals, fish, birds, insects and humans.

Brazil 116

Brazil Otters Reptiles Birds 116