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Best Bird of the Year 2011

10,000 Birds

I photographed this Guianan Cock-of-the-rock at a lek site near Surama, deep in the rainforest zone of Guyana, and my incredible experience with Andean Cock-of-the-rocks was at a display lek on the edge of the town of Jardin, in the coffee-belt of Colombia, both just incredible birds that make the heart soar with joy!

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

10,000 Birds

Because of that, the bird has a manure-like odour and is only hunted by humans for food in times of dire need” [ Source ]. 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.

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