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Penguins, Parrots and Wine on Matiu / Somes Island

10,000 Birds

As I have explained before these islands are the best place for a lot of the birding here because they are more easily protected from introduced mammals which wreck such havoc on the wildlife here. The whole place itself is an island, but the main islands are themselves the mainland to a number of smaller islands. I’ll work on that.

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They’ve Got an Awful Lot of Birds in Brazil.

10,000 Birds

They are members of the Parulidae family and Horneros are members of the Furnariidae family, a nice example of parallel evolution. Favorite Reptile: Yacare Caiman is one of three species of Caiman we saw, and it gets the number one spot because of this sight. Any suggestions? Let’s go!”

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