On the Road: Week of May 3 (5 am)
Albatrossity – Brazil 2013, part 2
way2blue – Casco Viejo, Panama City, Panama
?BillinGlendaleCA – Starbows
JanieM– China, part 3/8
Steve from Mendocino – The Caribbean 2 of 4 – Old San Juan
? And now, back to Albatrossity’s 2013 trip to Brazil.
Albatrossity
More images from the Pantanal, a vast wetland in that covers parts of Brazil, Bolivia and Paraguay. It is not only the worlds largest tropical wetland area, it is a hotbed of biodiversity. Anyone who is interested in the natural world needs to visit it sometime; of all the places in the world that I have been, it is the one I would choose to go back to first!
Many of the fazendas (ranches/farms) in the southern Pantanal are equipped for ecotourists to stay for a few days, and many of these pictures were from a visit to the Fazenda San Francisco near Miranda. Here’s the current list of bird species from there, as reported on eBird.
Wetlands must have large reptiles in order to be a proper wetland, and these Yacare Caimans (Caiman yacare) are plenty large. Males can reach nearly 10 ft. in length, and females up to 5 ft. They love to show off their toothy grins! They are best viewed from the seats in an open-air truck modified for seeing and photographing the wildlife.
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