10,000 Birds
MARCH 3, 2022
Tianmashan bonus mammal: a Raccoon Dog – though it looks a lot like a raccoon, it is actually more closely related to foxes than to raccoons. The White’s Thrush will keep pretending to be a reptile. Did the bird thank me?
10,000 Birds
DECEMBER 23, 2014
I’d never heard raccoons make that particular weird noise before, but that was my best guess as to what it was. Once endangered, they lead happy, protected lives, oblivious to the tourists who love them. My first view of these huge game birds when walking a rainforest trail at Finca Luna Nueva Lodge in the rain was stunning.
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