Photograph Steve Brookes


This was my third trip to Brazil with Steve -- an experience far better than travelling with a bird tour company whose participants tend to be tickers and listers. Go with Steve and you know the emphasis is on parrots! Watching them.


binoculars made me gasp. They were so beautiful! Small groups continued to return to circle over us. By this time I was so overcome with emotion at what I was seeing that I was sitting on a rock. I could not stand up…


40 BIRD SCENE


The emotional impact was like nothing I had experienced before. The macaws had been darkening the sky above me. The strange beauty of the surroundings and the spectacle of at least one third of the population of the species that had perched on the abyss of extinction left me speechless -- quite literally. I could only marvel at what I had seen and know that it was a privilege afforded to few. This was my third trip to Brazil with Steve -- an experience far better than travelling with a bird tour company whose participants tend to be tickers and listers. Go with Steve and you know the


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