Amazon encounter It was amazing – I would see them and many other parrots every day just like seeing sparrows and starlings here. I was on a tropical fish collecting trip as was heavily into my Amazon fish as well and I wanted to catch them in their native habitat, plus I have always wanted to cruise on the mighty Amazon River and its tributaries so it was a dream trip. As luck would have it the tour guide was a big bird watcher so once he learned I was into my birds he would always be pointing out the different species. We saw many every day from just cruising the river, hearing them in the jungle at the side of the boat and hearing them come


42 BIRD SCENE


over our heads in fighter plane style formations. This is second time I saw Brotogeris and from where my real love of them came. As they flew overhead they were really quite noisy but maybe not as noisy as the Ringnecks in London! The guide would crane his head skywards as you heard them in the distance and scan with his binoculars and shout “Canary Wings”, “White Wings” or whatever they were. Often you wouldn’t need the binoculars as they would come so close overhead you could see with the naked eye the wing flash. On this trip I also saw Brotos in the


markets for sale in tiny cages for next to nothing. It made me sad and I really


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