10,000 Birds
APRIL 24, 2024
Visiting Guyana brought with it the unavoidable expectation of seeing some mind boggling species – some endangered, some emblematic, others downright bizarre. Before we boarded the flight to Guyana we already knew that probabilities of seeing one of the target species was slashed to near zero. And waited. No birds yet.
10,000 Birds
JANUARY 17, 2024
Ardent readers of this blog would realise by now that I have been chronicling a few days spent in Guyana last year – I felt that a single post or two would invariably exclude far too many sightings of note. A couple bends along the trail and it seemed as if we were out of human contact by a thousand miles.
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10,000 Birds
MARCH 15, 2021
Guyana is an Amerindian word meaning “land of many waters” but it could just as easily mean “land of many birds”. Guyana means “Land of many waters”. Guyana is WILD. Not only is Guyana famous for its birdlife, but it’s also the Land of Giants. Yo es embarazada,” I once said in this exact situation. Wilderness.
10,000 Birds
DECEMBER 30, 2021
Because of that, the bird has a manure-like odour and is only hunted by humans for food in times of dire need” [ Source ]. 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.
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.
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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