10,000 Birds

JANUARY 29, 2013

The only drawback is that both places are highly trafficked with runners (both fast and not so fast), jabbering housewives with strollers, walkers (both fast and not so fast), camoed-out photographers with lenses that would make Piers Morgan call for an assault weapons ban on camera gear and an assortment of other frenetic bipedals.

North America 233

North America Factory Alligators Trafficking 233

10,000 Birds

MARCH 3, 2020

The source of this ranking, BirdLife International, lists Bolivia as currently having 1,439 bird species, including 18 breeding endemics. But, the numbers are quite large, and the birds organized in groupings that, for the most part, make it an easy process to figure out which Antwren (or Woodcreeper or Seedeater) is which.

Bolivia 182

Bolivia Birds Brazil Switzerland 182

10,000 Birds

APRIL 7, 2020

The proprietor of our ecolodge guides my small group of birders up a steep slope where we see, just at the point where a scope view deteriorates into pixels, a huge bird—a Chaco Eagle, also known as a Crowned Eagle—on a huge nest. September 2017, Cerrado, Brazil. We are cautioned to keep the location of the eagle a secret.

Falcons 224

Falcons United Kingdom Zimbabwe Eggs 224