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Secrets of the Swamps

10,000 Birds

A boat ride into this swamp turns up usual suspects like Pied Water Tyrant and Yellow-hooded Blackbird , but also (and most excitingly) three species of kingfisher: Green, American Pygmy and Ringed Kingfisher. We managed to see both species of monkey, though – so we were ultimately well satiated.

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How much bird is there, anyway?

10,000 Birds

I was looking out a car window the other day and noticed that of all the wildlife most of it was bird. But it happened at that moment that a lot of what I was looking at was avian in nature: a few crows, some sparrows, blackbirds, and other run of the mill inner-ring suburb fliers and flitterers.

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