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The Cocha Antshrike

10,000 Birds

He was very alert now, scanning the right bank with his eagle eyes. Only in the late 1980’s was it “rediscovered” so to say, with the male being found at Imuya Cocha and described to science for the first time. Then I heard it. It was a series of deep, hollow notes, too fast to count and extremely constant in pace.

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Birds of Bolivia: Field Guide–A Book Review

10,000 Birds

Like a shy stepchild, it’s always eclipsed by the wonders of Brazil, Ecuador, Colombia, etc. This is more than eBird reports–a checklist generated from the citizen science database lists only 1,413 species. Each species is numbered, with the numbers referring to the illustrations on the right.

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