Tweeters & Inlanders: We just returned from a 3 week trip to NE Brazil.
Had a great time in every aspect except birding. How is this for
frustration: We saw many, many life-birds but could not identify them
for lack of a Brazilian bird book. We could identify a few from a Costa
rican bird book we had with us. Also saw birds we had seen before in
Texas such as the Ciscadee, and Crested Caracara (many) The Bananquit,
smooth billed Ani, yellow headed vulture, boat-billed flycatcher, lesser
swallow-tailed swift, striped cuckoo, melodius blackbird were new to us.
We saw many small reddish doves, many small white doves, 8 resident
burrowing owls, american oystercatcher, very few shore birds and no
gulls, black and white Ani, a tiny sandpiper, lots of turkey and black
vultures, lots of egrets, a peregrine falcon hunting from a tall
apartment building, a giant kingfisher, and last but not least a large
dark blue almost black scissor-tailed humming bird. I think we must hold
the record for the most unidentified birds!!!
Anyone in Tweeterland have a Brazilian bird book they want to get rid of?

Hans & Kathryn "Katie" Krauss, Spokane, WA two.wing-nuts at juno.com
It's better to be "WNGNUTS" than dead-bolts. (vanity plate)