Bird Watching Prospects in the Amazon Rainforest

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