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Birding Inirida, Colombia, or river dolphins and hoatzins, part 2

10,000 Birds

Actually, they are all the same, single rock, the westernmost piece of the Guyana Shield geological formation, carved into two by the river and further rounded by rains. We found Black-collared Swallows breeding in cracks among the lower riverside rocks. There is no rubbish floating down the Inirida River, nor decorating its banks.

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Best* Bird Books, Binoculars, Bottles** of Booze, and Backpacks of the Bygone Year

10,000 Birds

We review what the publishers, distillers, or manufacturers send us, or what catches our collective eye, or what we have time for. Hudson; and a primer on geological history, including the continuing zoological effects of the “Great American Biotic Interchange”; and a travelogue of an extraordinary river trip through Guyana.

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