| Bird Watching Prospects in the Amazon
| |
| | species as the hoatzin, toucan, and the
|
| Rainforest
| |
| | umbrella bird.
|
| 13th July 2006
| |
| | Amazonia forest also represents over half
|
| Author: Richard Chapo
| |
| | of the planet's remaining rainforests,
|
| Once you catch bird watching fever, the
| |
| | one of the few areas where bird watchers
|
| completion of your life list will become
| |
| | can find such life list necessities as
|
| a dream. In that dream, there is little
| |
| | exotic parrots, umbrella birds and
|
| doubt that you will see the famous Amazon
| |
| | trogons. The high diversity of Amazon
|
| Rainforest.
| |
| | species includes resident species,
|
| Bird Watching Prospects in the Amazon
| |
| | wintering in, migrating birds, or just
|
| Rainforest
| |
| | passing though the region.
|
| Encompassing about 1,500 species in the
| |
| | Few of the species are found throughout
|
| land where the world's second longest
| |
| | the vast rainforest. Instead, each has
|
| river flows, the Amazon Rainforest is a
| |
| | particular habitats in particular areas.
|
| unique birding habitat . This region of
| |
| | Species at the base of the Andes are far
|
| South America from the Peruvian Andes to
| |
| | different than those found closer to the
|
| the South Atlantic in Brazil is known as
| |
| | vast Amazon River basin. In short, one
|
| Amazonia.
| |
| | has to have a thorough knowledge of
|
| The Amazon River and shoreline is a major
| |
| | specific species before simply heading
|
| destination for bird watchers with 4,000
| |
| | down to South America on a birding
|
| miles of shoreline. It is estimated that
| |
| | expedition.
|
| about 15 percent of all known bird
| |
| | The Amazon Rainforest represents one of
|
| species in the world have their habitat
| |
| | the last great ecological environments on
|
| here, which represents only 4 percent of
| |
| | our planet. Alas, humanity is encroaching
|
| the planet's land surface.
| |
| | on it every day, slashing and burning
|
| The Amazon Rainforest is a 7 million km
| |
| | acre after acre. While it is nice to
|
| square (1.2 billion acres) moist broad
| |
| | imagine this destruction will soon stop,
|
| leaf forest from 9 nations, Bolivia,
| |
| | it is best to pursue any birding trip in
|
| Peru, Ecuador, Colombia, Venezuela,
| |
| | the next ten years or so. After all, the
|
| Guyana, Suriname, French Guiana and
| |
| | planet is changing and they think there
|
| Brazil, the country which encompasses 60
| |
| | may be trees growing on Antarctica in the
|
| percent of the Amazon rainforest. The
| |
| | next hundred years or so!
|
| range of nations and the characteristics
| |
| | Rick Chapo is with - makers of bird
|
| of the forest contribute to making this
| |
| | watching journals. Visit us to read more
|
| region home of the world's tiniest
| |
| | articles about bird watching.
|
| hummingbirds. The area includes such rare
| |
| |
|
