Month: June 2023
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Field Station Life: Reserva Mbaracayú
May 2nd-31st, 2023, Canindeyu, Paraguay. I spent the month of May working as a volunteer at Reserva Natural del Bosque Mbaracayú, Paraguay’s largest forest reserve, which lies in the eastern half of the country, up near the border with Brazil. It mostly consists of lowland Atlantic Forest and Parana Forest, with a small area of…
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San Francisco, Parque Nacional Calilegua
April 20-28, 2023. Jujuy Province, Argentina After visiting Purmamarca and the Yungas forest near San Salvador de Jujuy, I caught a bus up to Ledesma (now known as Libertador General San Martin) which is the closest town to the lowland parts of Calilegua National Park. This is one of Argentina’s biggest parks, and it covers…
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First days in the Yungas
Apr 15-17, 2023 I had been in Argentina for nearly two months and I still hadn’t visited the most ecologically diverse region: the northwest. The northwest of Argentina is so diverse because of its nearly-tropical latitude and massive elevational range. The lowest areas in the east represent the western limit of the immense, scrubby Chaco…
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Karadya Birding Lodge
Apr 6-11, 2023 This story starts back in early February: while I was staying at Finca Ecologica San Luis in Costa Rica, I met a couple of birders from California: Kathe and John Hendrickson. They put me in touch with Fernando Pocho Cabral, the manager of Karadya Birding Lodge here in Misiones. Thank you both…
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Toucans and Waterfalls
Iguazú falls is one of the largest waterfalls in the world. It lies on the Iguazu river which forms the border between Argentina and Brazil, so the falls are actually shared between the two countries. Just downstream, the Iguazu flows into the Paraná river, with Paraguay on the other side. Each country has a sizeable…
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El Soberbio (Misiones)
Note: this post and those to follow are SUPER back-dated. I’m posting in June but this is what I was doing in early April… I’m catching up now though! From Posadas, I caught the bus to El Soberbio (the Suburb) which is a very small town on Argentina’s border with Brazil. The birding there was…
Backcountry Birding 