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

10,000 Birds

Later, we would be seeing dolphins every day. On one hand, dolphins are apex predators and a proof of a preserved ecosystem. said that he dreamt of river dolphins. This dolphin shapeshifter is called an encantado. . “Shameless creatures: An ethnozoology of the Amazon river dolphin” Ethnology.

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South Florida Specialties Birding

10,000 Birds

One of the species he called out, Red-masked Parakeet , was present in numbers and nesting at the location. The Dolphin Mall to be precise, where ponds in front of the mall are the best spot around to see Gray-headed Swamphens , yet another introduced species that has proliferated to the point where they are countable in Florida.

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