1 August 2011

The trouble with a foreign patch?

Is that it is far too far away to twitch and you can be seriously gripped! If there was ever an email that I dreaded receiving just days after returning from REGUA, it was the one I received from our project manager, Nicholas Locke, this afternoon: "We have just photographed a Stygian Owl in the wetlands last night!! WOOOWWWWW!! You are just going to have to come. I will be getting photos."

Owls are my favourite family and this email has completely and utterly destroyed me!! Stygian Owl is very scarce throughout Latin America and this is only the third record for Rio de Janeiro state, the first being recorded in 1985 and the second at Vale das Taquaras in 2009. Many thanks to Mikael Käll who has kindly given me permission to use this fantastic image he took of the bird. Somehow I MUST see it!!


Whatever next from REGUA? Kinglet Calyptura?
Posted by Lee Dingain at 15:00
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3 comments:

  1. Helen Cavilla5 August 2011 at 14:37

    dexuaSeeing the Stygian Owl was pretty special. Spotting the Kinglet Calyptura will be next, I'm pretty certain.

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  2. Lee Dingain7 August 2011 at 11:12

    I'll be on the next plane out if that happens!

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  3. Anonymous16 August 2011 at 17:58

    This is ridiculous! Nice to know its closer than the last site for them. Everytime I look at your blog it shows another bird I missed at REGUA, but even better is another reason for my return.

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