Amazonian Internet cafes have successfully killed my will to write long, verbose blogs and run on sentences. So I’m limiting this blog to a few bullet points and a bird list. <\/p>\n
\u2022 We made it to the Brasil! Don now pauses frequently to scan the banks for the famed g-string clad Brasilian beauty. So far, he hasn’t spotted one, but I will update this status once we get to Manaus.<\/p>\n
\u2022 The river dolphins continue to evade our photographic efforts, although we still see them frequently.<\/p>\n
\u2022 A few days before arriving at the Brasil\/Peru\/Colombia border, we hit the confluence with the Rio Napo. For those of you who are a little rusty on your Amazon Basin geography, the Napo comes from Ecuador. Every river on the Eastern Slope of the Andes that Don and I used to guide on in Ecuador flows into the Napo, so it was special for us to see the terminus. We also particularly enjoyed the Napo because it had very good flow and help to carry us downriver.<\/p>\n
\u2022 Peruvian bird list for all you bird nerds out there. The birds are listed in no particular order.<\/p>\n
Neotropic cormorant
\nGreat egret
\nStriated heron
\nFasciated tiger heron
\nJabiru (stork)
\nRoseate spoonbill
\nAndean swift
\nSwallow tailed kite
\nHorned screamer
\nAndean goose
\nAndean condor
\nBlack vulture
\nTurkey vulture
\nBlack collared hawk
\nBlack chested buzzard eagle
\nSpix’s guan
\nSunbittern
\nSalvin’s curassow
\nChilean flamingo
\nCommon nighthawk
\nWhite throated toucan
\nLots of terns…just not sure which ones
\nTorrent duck
\nCattle egret
\nSnowy egret
\nBlack crowned night heron
\nPuna ibis
\nYellow headed caracara
\nOsprey
\nRed throated caracara
\nCollared plover
\nSandpipers–not sure which ones
\nBlue and yellow macaw
\nBlue headed macaw
\nWhite eyed parakeet
\nParrots and parrotlets–tons of them, but very hard to identify which ones
\nGreater ani
\nSwifts–not sure which ones
\nRinged kingfisher
\nAracaris…again, not sure which ones
\nEmerald toucanet
\nAndean coot
\nGreen jay (aka inca jay)
\nCrested oropendola
\nYellow rumped cacique
\nMartins. Lots! Don’t know which
\nWhite-capped dipper<\/p>\n
Ok, that is it until we hit Manaus. Bye bye Peru, viva Brasil!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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