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Cuero y Salado Wildlife Refuge, Honduras, Part 1

10,000 Birds

We didn’t know what to expect from the train that had at one time been used to transport bananas to the coast and is now used to transport ecotourists to the wildlife refuge. Howler monkeys! My first-ever wild monkeys! Monkeys!!!!! Not only that, but we had a train ride to look forward to!

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Ugandan Birding for Businessmen

10,000 Birds

Resident Red-tailed Monkeys, Vervet Monkeys, and Bushbabies are fun to watch but they do throw “stuff” at your cabin. This is my first post, so I won’t provide details on the stuff, but you know monkeys – they have a weird sense of humor. The local community protects the swamp because it’s the home of their totem, the lungfish.

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