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Exploring the Uncharted Bird World

10,000 Birds

1401-1600 sp: Ecuador, Bolivia; Indonesia. 1601-1800 sp : Colombia, Brazil, Peru (Looking for smaller areas of these huge countries? . – now the pace quickens: USA; Angola, Cameroon, Nigeria, Uganda, Sudan, Ethiopia; Nepal, Myanmar, Malaysia, Vietnam. 1101-1200 sp: Mexico; Argentina; DR Congo (Kinshasa), Tanzania, Kenya; India.

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Scanning the skies for Zone-tailed hawks

10,000 Birds

Given the scavenger feeding habits of the Turkey Vultures , the small mammals and birds that are on the menu for the Zone-tailed hawks are lulled into complacency by the lack of threat from the vultures. Their territory also includes portions of Central America, down into eastern Columbia, Ecuador and Peru.

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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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