| Bird Watching Prospects in the Amazon Rainforest | | | | bird. |
| 13th July 2006 | | | | Amazonia forest also represents over half of the |
| Author: Richard Chapo | | | | planet's remaining rainforests, one of the few areas |
| Once you catch bird watching fever, the completion of | | | | where bird watchers can find such life list necessities |
| your life list will become a dream. In that dream, there is | | | | as exotic parrots, umbrella birds and trogons. The high |
| little doubt that you will see the famous Amazon | | | | diversity of Amazon species includes resident species, |
| Rainforest. | | | | wintering in, migrating birds, or just passing though the |
| Bird Watching Prospects in the Amazon Rainforest | | | | region. |
| Encompassing about 1,500 species in the land where | | | | Few of the species are found throughout the vast |
| the world's second longest river flows, the Amazon | | | | rainforest. Instead, each has particular habitats in |
| Rainforest is a unique birding habitat . This region of | | | | particular areas. Species at the base of the Andes are |
| South America from the Peruvian Andes to the South | | | | far 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 destination | | | | thorough knowledge of specific species before simply |
| for bird watchers with 4,000 miles of shoreline. It is | | | | heading down to South America on a birding |
| estimated that about 15 percent of all known bird | | | | expedition. |
| species in the world have their habitat here, which | | | | The 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 (1.2 | | | | humanity 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 which | | | | birding 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 the | | | | growing on Antarctica in the next hundred years or so! |
| forest contribute to making this region home of the | | | | Rick Chapo is with - makers of bird watching journals. |
| world's tiniest hummingbirds. The area includes such | | | | Visit us to read more articles about bird watching. |
| rare species as the hoatzin, toucan, and the umbrella | | | | |