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The Rufous Hornero Furnarius rufus is very common in open country in the southern half of South America east of the Andes and is the national bird of Argentina. Rather thrush-like, Horneros (there are eight species of Furnarius) are actually funariids, a diverse family which currently includes seemingly unrelated tribes as the ‘true ovenbirds’ (which [...]

I can hear the groans from here: “Panama - the trip to the airport?” Come OOOOONNNN, Charlie. Surely a blinking drive to an airport can’t be worth blogging about? If the trip starts at Canopy Tower at dawn, winds down Semaphore Hill with a couple of stops en-route, diverts into dry forest, and then goes [...]

Day Two of my marvellous Panama adventure courtesy of Raul Arias de Para and the staff at the superb Canopy Tower - the world-famous radar station turned birder’s wonderland sat high above the rainforest of the Soberanía National Park (and probably the only place in the world where I’ll ever be able to watch Keel-billed [...]

 
A couple of weeks ago I posted about the Canopy Tower Stimulus Plan, a superb cut-price offer on visits to the Canopy Tower (a converted ex-military radar station which gives breathtaking views at canopy level across Panama’s forests from the top of Semaphore Hill) and Canopy Lodge in Panama. The CTSP is the brainchild of [...]

One of the least-known taxa in Brazil (and thus probably in the world) is an antwren found only in typha marshes at the head of the Teite River in São Paulo, south-eastern Brazil. Only discovered in February 2005 when an ecological survey was made of an area threatened by a new reservoir (see below for [...]