10,000 Birds

JUNE 5, 2024

Originating from the word “Rapon” which translates to Black-bellied Whistling Duck in the Makushi language, the Rupununi River flows north and then east, where it then joins the mighty Essequibo River that flows northward through the rest of Guyana, ultimately meeting its end at the country’s (only) Atlantic coast.

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Guyana Otters Trinidad Bats 221

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 17, 2024

Ardent readers of this blog would realise by now that I have been chronicling a few days spent in Guyana last year – I felt that a single post or two would invariably exclude far too many sightings of note. Until a small, falcon-like bird darted through the understory. The birds were for the most part playing hard to get, though.

Guyana 230

Guyana Parrots Trinidad Woodpeckers 230

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 4, 2021

Hudson; and a primer on geological history, including the continuing zoological effects of the “Great American Biotic Interchange”; and a travelogue of an extraordinary river trip through Guyana. It’s one of those rare books, full of esoterica and wit, that you wish would not end.

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Birds Colombia Collecting Bald Eagle 246