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! 1,712 species, 12% of which are endemics.
10,000 Birds
OCTOBER 9, 2015
Red-billed Curassow ( Crax blumenbachii ), a large, ground-dwelling bird belonging to the same family as the more familiar Plain Chachalaca of southern Texas, was never a very widespread species. In 2013, Dalcio Dacol and I paid a visit to this reserve as part of an independent, month long birding trip in southeast Brazil.
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10,000 Birds
APRIL 5, 2022
Thank you, goddess of birding luck and text group people).* It also summarizes the vagrancy status of every bird family in the whole wide world, which makes it fun to read as well as superbly educational. The Family Accounts are the fun part of the book. 220; Copyright © 2022 Tom Johnson photos p.
10,000 Birds
SEPTEMBER 8, 2023
Checklist for Belize lists 622 species in 76 families, of which 104 are rare or accidental and four introduced. Checklist lists 955 species in 86 families, with 152 rare/accidental species, three extirpated species, five introduced species, and nine endemics). For context, the IOC version 13.1
10,000 Birds
JUNE 27, 2014
Parrots captivate me more than any other bird family. Second, they occupy an astonishing variety of habitats from temperate Araucaria forests in Chile to alpine scree in New Zealand to seasonally flooded rainforests in Brazil to rocky sea cliffs in Australia. However, they do not occur evenly across their familial distribution.
10,000 Birds
JUNE 11, 2011
The Hyacinth Macaw is more than just another pretty face; these birds are social with strong family values. They like to fly in pairs or groups and in the evening they come together in big groups to roost in a favorite ‘dormitory’ tree. The Hyacinth Macaw doesn’t start a family until it is seven years old.
10,000 Birds
JUNE 5, 2013
The new birds inhabit the southern portion of the Amazon, some only in Brazil but others in Bolivia and Peru as well. The 15th is grouped in the Bucconidae family and appears similar to a Striolated Puffbird. Of the bunch, 14 are passerines. They bear wonderful-sounding names like “ Can-can-da-campina.
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