My apologies for the heaping up of these ‘posts’ about my late-fall travels, but I wanted to share some of the excitement of my birding visits south, even if they are tardy and out of order. For those annoyed by their apparently chaotic sequence, a reminder: just click on the appropriate category on the right […]

Not even Guyana, for all its avian riches, lets birders check off everything on their wish lists in a visit of just two weeks. Several of us had harbored great hopes for Sunbittern, that rainbow-winged shade-dweller of the jungle, but by our last day at Karanambu, it looked like we’d missed it for real.
Our last […]

All in all, the insects weren’t bad in Guyana. I did use my bugspray once in a while, and suffered a very few mosquito bites when I didn’t. Because I wasn’t itching (well, except for when I wandered off into chiggerland a couple of times), I had leisure to look at some attractive, or at […]

Herons and egrets are always a bonus on any trip to the Neotropics; two species in particular were among my favorites on my November visit to Guyana. Both are closely related to familiar North American species, both, though, stunning in their own distinctive ways.

Striated Heron is the southern counterpart of “our” Green Heron, and in […]

There’s something fascinatingly prehistoric about storks, and Guyana offers a good selection of these huge wading birds.
We did not find the ominously decreasing Maguari, but Wood Storks were common and readily found, looking like pterodactyls as they flew over us everywhere from urban parks to wilderness swamps.

(This picture is especially for Alex, who discovered and […]