{"id":1363,"date":"2007-11-09T17:38:28","date_gmt":"2007-11-10T00:38:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/birdaz.com\/blog\/2007\/11\/09\/surama-birding\/"},"modified":"2021-12-19T17:33:59","modified_gmt":"2021-12-19T22:33:59","slug":"surama-birding","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/birdaz.com\/blog\/2007\/11\/09\/surama-birding\/","title":{"rendered":"Surama Birding"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A day at Surama, a small village just up the road from Rock View Lodge. The road there, which is also the highway from Georgetown to Brazil, produced the usual savannah species: <strong>Burrowing Owl, Cocoi Heron, Vermilion Flycatcher<\/strong>&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p>We enjoyed\u00c2&nbsp; wonderful meal at the village&#8217;s fine little eco-lodge, then set out to look for birds. <strong>Savannah Hawk <\/strong>was a revelation,\u00c2&nbsp; even larger and more beautiful than the books make it seem. A <strong>Great Potoo <\/strong>was a welcome stake-out in a damp bit of woods, and there was also a pair of <strong>Black-crested Antshrikes<\/strong> there&#8211;does anyone know why that bird is called <em>canadensis<\/em>?<\/p>\n<p>But the bird of the day, head and shoulders above even that stiff competition, was a <strong>Spotted Puffbird <\/strong>perched low above our heads, flashing out every few minutes to grab a bug, then returning to its customary stolidity. There&#8217;s something about a puffbird that screams &#8216;tropics&#8217;, and this bird, along with the day&#8217;s <strong>Black Nunbirds<\/strong> and <strong>Swallow-wings<\/strong> (a funny name for a funnier bird), left no doubt about where we are!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A day at Surama, a small village just up the road from Rock View Lodge. The road there, which is also the highway from Georgetown to Brazil, produced the usual savannah species: Burrowing Owl, Cocoi Heron, Vermilion Flycatcher&#8230;. We enjoyed\u00c2&nbsp; wonderful meal at the village&#8217;s fine little eco-lodge, then set out to look for birds. &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/birdaz.com\/blog\/2007\/11\/09\/surama-birding\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Surama Birding&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27,2],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/birdaz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1363"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/birdaz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/birdaz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/birdaz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/birdaz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1363"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/birdaz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1363\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11907,"href":"http:\/\/birdaz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1363\/revisions\/11907"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/birdaz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1363"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/birdaz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1363"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/birdaz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1363"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}