10,000 Birds

MARCH 27, 2024

The millions of stars and galaxies twinkling over the Rupununi Savanna in Guyana seem to reluctantly fade into a gradually lightening sky as the eastern horizon reddens. But we are on the lookout for one of Guyana’s famed giants, the Giant Anteater – which uncharacteristically never showed.

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Guyana Giraffes Brazil Trinidad 200

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 22, 2023

Guyana’s capital city of Georgetown, a quaint, sprawling network of roads and waterways is a regulated introduction to the country’s 800+ species of birds. Bird number one in a new country, and fittingly, a lifer for me. Bird number one in a new country, and fittingly, a lifer for me.

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Guyana Parrots Birds South America 179

10,000 Birds

MARCH 31, 2021

This is not the most confusing aspect of birds by any means, after all there are tanagers which belong in the cardinal family and cardinals that are tanagers. These birds occupy literally every terrestrial habitat within their extensive range, from high altitude forests to coastal, rocky habitat.

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Trinidad Litter Guyana Family 257

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 17, 2024

Ardent readers of this blog would realise by now that I have been chronicling a few days spent in Guyana last year – I felt that a single post or two would invariably exclude far too many sightings of note. I contemplated how the birds were able to achieve such acceleration after sleeping all night without an ounce of caffeine.

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Guyana Parrots Trinidad Woodpeckers 198

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 5, 2013

Hidden away in that boatyard is an amazingly good spot to buy roti, which rivaled doubles as my favorite food that I sampled while in Trinidad and Tobago. This happened in Trinidad and Guyana in the urban areas to make it easier and faster to eat the items, as the individuals’ hands would not get as dirty.

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Trinidad Guyana Chickens Reptiles 173

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 6, 2023

After leaving our hotel in the dark, we arrived at the small dock about half hour after sunrise – making one of many salient points about birding in Guyana: the country is vast! And so we did, but every subsequent sighting was of birds blitzing past. Further downriver, a tiny bird flitted on an open branch.

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Guyana Trinidad Bats Falcons 140

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 20, 2023

Being relatively close to the city is a bit misleading, as this may lead one to think that the area is devoid of life – but let this be a gentle reminder that Guyana is 85% forested! The Point-tailed Palmcreeper is a strange bird in all senses. It was almost as if the bird was made for the tree.

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Farming Guyana Birds South America 208