10,000 Birds

MARCH 13, 2024

In Guyana, this concept holds true partly because of the untamed nature of the place and also due to the fact that feeder set-ups simply aren’t that prevalent. As we all know, however, there is much to be seen and heard beyond the feeders. This lottery of birding means that what one sees is wholly up to the type of habitat available.

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Guyana Parrots Family Birds 243

10,000 Birds

JULY 19, 2018

401-600 sp: Honduras, Guatemala, Guyana, Suriname and French Guyana, Chile, Paraguay, Uruguay; the Sahel countries (Africa), Namibia and Botswana; Central Asian countries and Cambodia. 6 Guyana (7.9 % – 796 sp. 1 en), French Guyana (727 sp. / 801-1000 sp. – 1201-1400 sp: Venezuela; China. 7 Guatemala (764 sp. /

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10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 6, 2023

After leaving our hotel in the dark, we arrived at the small dock about half hour after sunrise – making one of many salient points about birding in Guyana: the country is vast! The main target as we drifted downriver was the enigmatic and prehistoric Hoatzin – national bird of Guyana and an absolute treat for the eyes.

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Guyana Trinidad Bats Falcons 149

10,000 Birds

MARCH 31, 2021

Life is simple with ten furnariids – neighboring Guyana has 44! The final furnariid is the Streaked Xenops , probably much more common than we realize as it is so easy to miss as it forages along thin twigs in the middle and high storey. The post Ovenbirds (but not the Ovenbird) appeared first on 10,000 Birds.

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Trinidad Litter Guyana Family 264

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 20, 2023

Being relatively close to the city is a bit misleading, as this may lead one to think that the area is devoid of life – but let this be a gentle reminder that Guyana is 85% forested! Also an uncommonly seen bird in Guyana, there is only a single record of this species on Trinidad – and that bird was only seen once.

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Farming Guyana Birds South America 233

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 5, 2013

This happened in Trinidad and Guyana in the urban areas to make it easier and faster to eat the items, as the individuals’ hands would not get as dirty. But, as Wikipedia points out, it has taken on a new meaning in the Caribean: The roti wrap is the commercialization of roti and curry as a fast-food item in the Caribbean.

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Trinidad Guyana Chickens Reptiles 186

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 3, 2024

Although by this time we had already clocked around a hundred species after a day and a half in Guyana, we were understandably eager to explore the famous rugged interior of the country. Now, I hadn’t a glimmer of hope of seeing this species before getting to Guyana. Unless, of course, a small aircraft is involved.

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Guyana Litter Owls Trinidad 225

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 4, 2011

For these stunning birds are not easily found outside of the Guianas which includes Suriname, Guyana and French Guiana. Guianan Cock-of-the-rock, Capuchinbird, Red Fan Parrot, Guianan Toucanet, White Bellbird, Grey-winged Trumpeters, Black Currasow. Interested yet? Well, you should be.

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Suriname Birds Guyana South America 225

10,000 Birds

JULY 18, 2019

In such a case, you might opt to book an eastbound flight, or a series of flights, from Lisbon to Sao Tome and Principe, Ghana, Rwanda, Uganda, then Sri Lanka, Thailand, Borneo, PNG, Tahiti, Ecuador, Guyana and finally to Costa Rica…. With its 810 birds, Guyana is located at the northern coast of South America.

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 21, 2015

Black-faced Antthrush : Just as the Maya Antthrush sounds different from the birds in Costa Rica, so do the birds in Amazonia, Trinidad and Tobago, and the Guyanas. It might end up being the same species as the cute little antpittas in Mindo but then again who knows?

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Costa Rica Species South America America 225

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 19, 2011

I photographed this Guianan Cock-of-the-rock at a lek site near Surama, deep in the rainforest zone of Guyana, and my incredible experience with Andean Cock-of-the-rocks was at a display lek on the edge of the town of Jardin, in the coffee-belt of Colombia, both just incredible birds that make the heart soar with joy!

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10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 30, 2021

Actually, they are all the same, single rock, the westernmost piece of the Guyana Shield geological formation, carved into two by the river and further rounded by rains. Located within a Puinave indigenous reserve, these remnants of ancient parent-rock are some of the oldest geological formations in all of South America.

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Dolphins Colombia Otters Birds 264

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