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Trinidad’s Coastal Forest

10,000 Birds

Running end-to-end across the northernmost section of the island, Trinidad’s Northern Range is the final outcrop of the mighty Andes after it bends eastward through Venezuela. A Peregrine Falcon launches, ready and willing to utilize the relative invisibility afforded by twilight to bring a swift end to someone’s morning.

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World birding from a Schrödinger’s house

10,000 Birds

Venezuela 1417 8. Yet, among them, DR Congo is burdened with its long lasting guerilla war and recently with an Ebola outbreak as well (both in the bird-richest east of the country), while Venezuela is in economic and political tailspin and you would be ill-advised to go there. Colombia 1959 bird species 2. Peru 1838 4.

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