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Tremendous Torrent Ducks

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On a recent filming trip to Colombia with Aderman (my notorious/nefarious videographer), Birding Tours Colombia and Richard Crossley, I was fortunate enough to see some of this death-wish behavior first-hand. Because after we found that female she led us right to a male. Colombia is a land chock-full of avian treasures.

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Birding Inirida, Colombia, a forest so young that birds still have no names, part 1

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They were too childish, right? Dubbed the Escape to the Orinoco River Basin of Colombia, this one-week and 250-species long trip uses the riverside city of Inírida as a comfortable single-base to explore the unique mix of birds that occur in the Estrella Fluvial Ramsar site.

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Birds of Bolivia: Field Guide–A Book Review

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Like a shy stepchild, it’s always eclipsed by the wonders of Brazil, Ecuador, Colombia, etc. In what has become the modern-day traditional method of organization, species are listed and described on the left-hand page and illustrative plates are on the right. Bolivia doesn’t come up much in discussions of birding travel.

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A Guide to Some Possible Bird Species Splits in Costa Rica

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Bird species that require further research. The same can be said about the population in Colombia and Ecuador so this could end up being a future, three-way split. Although the proposal failed to pass, more than one person who voted on it mentioned that Howell was probably right but that a more thorough study was needed.

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The Glitter in the Green: In Search of Hummingbirds–A Hummer Book Review

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A little online research into some of these topics, however–like Elizabeth Gould, an extremely talented woman who illustrated her husband’s bird treatises and who despaired of his collecting habit–and I realize that Dunn was probably exercising a lot of restraint. Is all that material on Selkirk needed?

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Best* Bird Books, Binoculars, Bottles** of Booze, and Backpacks of the Bygone Year

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The holidays started early this year, with the first night of Hannukah coming right at the end of Thanksgiving weekend! Colombia is one of those countries that Dragan’s dreams are made of: it has 1,965 bird species – more than any other country in the world. Each image is accompanied by a page of prose detail on the bird (e.g.,

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