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Venezuela Birds
Venezuela! A birders paradise!! We've been able to continue using A Guide to the Birds of the West Indies as there is some overlap, but mainly our reference is A Guide to the Birds of Venezuela by Schauensee and Phelps, published 1978, Princeton University Press. It has fantastic color plates, but, in our opinion, not enough. Hundreds of species are illustrated by black and white line drawings in the text section, making it a bit of a puzzle to find and identify new birds. This book needs a new version, and soon. In any case, minor grouches aside, we've had a fabulous time both inland and along the coasts, binoculars and bird book in hand. We took a wildlife safari into Venezuela's interior: an area called Los Llanos (the plains) which is really as close to Botswana's Okavango Delta in Africa as one can get in terms of the area being a bird haven, half the year flooded, half dry. We visited at the end of the wet season, meaning there were still many flooded grasslands filled with birds and we could travel up Venezuela's Apure River and its smaller tributaries by long metal canoe (with outboard). |
The Red-capped Cardinal is one of the bright birds of Los Llanos, Venezuela. Here, feeding in the mud by a flood-plain in Los Llanos. |
Probably white-faced whistling ducklings |
Yellow-headed parrot on a river farm, Venezuela. |
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