International Travel

Yellow-crowned Amazons in Guyana. Photo by Julie Zickefoose.

Guyana: Journey to the Lungs of the Earth

It is a dreadful task to try to condense more than 25,000 words of my writings on Guyana into a 2,000-word article. Perhaps I should select every twelfth word in the narrative. It would read something like this: wet hot birds beautiful floppy anteater, and perhaps stand a better chance of capturing this place than …

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Blue-crowned Motmot in Trinidad

Introduction to the Neotropics—a Winter Trip to Trinidad and Tobago

Introduction Wake up to the calls of barred antshrikes, ferruginous pygmy-owls, blue-crowned motmots. Step out onto the porch of your cabin and see a male tufted coquette and silver-beaked tanager in the treetop. Then make your way to the veranda to view the early morning feeder frenzy—white-necked jacobins, honeycreepers, several other species of hummingbirds and …

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