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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10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

On a high after waking up in Guyana’s wild interior for the first time – with a spectacular morning of birding already under our belts – we resumed our southerly journey with full bellies. As difficult as it was to leave Iwokrama behind, we knew that we’d be back eventually.

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10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 22, 2023

Guyana’s capital city of Georgetown, a quaint, sprawling network of roads and waterways is a regulated introduction to the country’s 800+ species of birds. Great Kiskadees are ubiquitous in Trinidad and Guyana, this bird’s proportions were slightly different, however.

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Guyana Parrots South America Trinidad 229

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

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 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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10,000 Birds

MAY 22, 2024

The quiet village of Moco-moco in southwest Guyana was the most southerly point of our sojourn into the landlocked country some months ago. Myself and dear friend Leon blitzed across the savanna in the pre-dawn pinks and purples en route to this village as I strained my eyes trying to pick any birds from the landscape.

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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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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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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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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

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 242

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 1, 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. English is the official language of Guyana, with a distinctive cadence and idiom.

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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 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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Colombia Birds Bald Eagle Guyana 246