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Where I Went Birding that Third Weekend of September 2020

10,000 Birds

There was the Botteri’s Sparrow giving a larger Canyon Towhee a piece of its mind, on my way into town: The reservoir itself was underwhelming, only offering me a collection of white Egrets (Cattle, Snowy and Great) and a single Great Blue Heron. Of course, not everything interesting is a bird.

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

10,000 Birds

Located within a Puinave indigenous reserve, these remnants of ancient parent-rock are some of the oldest geological formations in all of South America. Yet, we had a good two hours or almost 50 kilometres by 75 horse-powered speedboat to reach Inirida at sunset. Black-collared Swallow by Tyler Ficker.

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