Tag: Amazon

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Meeting of the Waters in Manaus, Brazil

November 19, 2024 by Hannah No Comments

Popular tourist sites can be hit or miss. Some are exaggerated up by tour operators and end up being a big letdown for tourists;...

Birding, Birds, Inspiration, Trips

Amazon Birding in Presidente Figueiredo

October 15, 2024 by Hannah No Comments

When you ask someone what they know about Brazil, you will likely hear answers about the world-famous Rio de Janeiro Carnival, the vast Amazon...

Trips

Birding Inirida, Colombia: practicalities, part 3

January 13, 2022 by Dragan No Comments

Technically, we were in the Orinoco River Basin of wider Amazonia. Yet, unlike the black shoe-sucking mud of Amazon further south, this is Amazonia...

Trips

Birding Inirida, Colombia, or river dolphins and hoatzins, part 2

December 30, 2021 by Dragan 2 Comments

Have you ever birded a place so young that birds still have no names? …– part 2 –After I have finished writing this, with...

Trips

Birding Inirida, Colombia, a forest so young that birds still have no names, part 1

December 16, 2021 by Dragan 7 Comments

Have you ever birded a place so young that birds still have no names? Ten days ago, I was sitting in a boat in...

Birding

Cristalino Lodge: A Day as a Birding Guide

March 21, 2014 by Carlos 4 Comments

Few people can imagine (or even take seriously) the life of a birding guide at a lodge in the tropics, so I thought it...

Birding

Guiding at Cristalino Lodge Report I: Back to Birding School

August 16, 2013 by Carlos 2 Comments

After over a year of planning and preparation (and after a quick trip to the Pantanal and Chapada dos Guimaraes), I finally arrived at...

Trips

The Threat to the Amazon’s birds

June 16, 2012 by Renato 5 Comments

The latest news from IUCN Redlist regarding birds is not good. The risk of extinction for Amazonian birds has increased substantially: 07 June 2012...

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