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Rancho Naturalista Lodge, Costa Rica, or in the Land of Coffee and Chocolate

10,000 Birds

Black-bellied Whistling-Ducks , Muscovy Ducks and Blue-winged Teals were around us, together with Green , Great and Little Blue Herons , Cattle and Great White Egrets , Black-crowned and Yellow-crowned Night-Herons , plus one locally rare Pinnated Bittern in the floating vegetation, as well as several dozen Neotropical Cormorants.

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Protecting the Hyacinth Macaw and the Cerrado

10,000 Birds

Big, bold, beautiful parrots full of character and charm, macaws make us long for some of the world’s wildest places and assure us that, as long as they fly free, those magical wild places are still intact. 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.

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Birding Chaco at JV Gonzles – Trip Report

10,000 Birds

This land has gone through extensive ecosystem destruction from farming cattle and soybeans. Suddenly in the middle of the soybean fields there was a group of Lesser Rheas that were approaching the road. Suddenly in the middle of the soybean fields there was a group of Lesser Rheas that were approaching the road. Lesser Rheas.

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