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- Subject: Re: HELP: Best travel destination(s) for bird-watching???
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- From: winer@husc10.harvard.edu (Adam Winer)
- Date: 26 Jan 93 18:33:08 GMT
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- If you want to get started in neotropical birdwatching, the best spot
- has got to be the Asa Wright Nature Preserve (not sure of exact title)
- on Trinidad. While diversity is nowhere near as high as other regions
- in the neotropics, the birdwatching is very easy, the accomodations
- are good. You can get a very impressive amount of birdwatching done
- right from a veranda overlooking hummingbird feeders; when I was
- there, many species of hummingbirds, including White-necked Jacobin
- and Tufted Coquette were seen there, as well as Bearded Bellbird, Green
- Honeycreeper and Purple Honeycreeper.
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- Now if you're looking for a greater diversity, Hato Pinero, a ranch in
- Venezuela is just superb. In a typical stay youd get over 200 species
- over a great variety of habitats; Scarlet Macaws and Jabirus are easy.
- Hoatzin are abundant on a nearby river. Truly spectacular.
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- Of course, in the rest of the world, Cairns is incredible. So is Kenya.
- So is... To be honest, most of the world has great birdwatching in
- some way or another. One of the things I like best about birdwatching
- is that there isn't anywhere in the world I don't want to go. There
- aren't many hobbies that can find just about any location in the world
- desirable.
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