Bird from Telescope

Amazon Swim

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June 30th 2006
Our last day for the trails. Most of us were happy. Our last trail we walked to a large tower grad students from Boston had built to observe monkeys. At the top we could see above the trees. We also had a telescope and our new guide Romeiro who knew lots about the animals. We saw so many monkeys moving around. Howlers, spider monkeys, titi monkeys. We saw lots of birds. Macaws, tanagers, parrots. ... read more

South America » Ecuador

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The "Republic of the Equator" was one of three countries that emerged from the collapse of Gran Colombia in 1830 (the others are Colombia and Venezuela). Between 1904 and 1942, Ecuador lost territories in a series of conflicts with its neighbors. A b... ... read more