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GUYANA–Simply Delicious Birding!

10,000 Birds

They found several thousand red siskins, a discovery that not only changed the course of the species’ history, but inspired the local villages to embark on a conservation mission that has become a model for local communities the world over. A Red Siskin close to one of the granite outcrops in the Rupununi. The greens, yellows and blues etc.

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Ferruginous Pygmy-Owls

10,000 Birds

In fact, this sub-species was formerly classified as endangered in the US under the Endangered Species Act. “Schmoking Ponies!” The Arizona birds are from the cactorum race and these birds are often referred to as the Cactus Ferruginous Pygmy Owl. Sure enough, there they were.

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