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

10,000 Birds

… – part 2 – Once I finish this writing, with a strange mix of emotions I will put the Lynx field guide Birds of Colombia to the bookshelf for the first time, more than half a year after I received it. When they surface, the tips of the snout, biosonar “melon” and dorsal fins appear simultaneously, the tail rarely showing before diving.

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Ghana – Rainforest Birding on the Brink by Adam Riley

10,000 Birds

Very little information was available at the time, so we hired a car and off we went, following the few tips we had managed to gather but mostly our noses. And wow, what a trip we had! What are the chances of survival for these shy forest denizens?

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