Photograph Steve Brookes


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


08 20 BIRD SCENE


the emphasis is on parrots! Watching them -- not ticking off species! I have seen parrots leave their roost sites in


many locations. Usually they are gone in a whoosh of wings -- and that is that. But not the Lear’s. I know from the time on my photographs that we watched them for well over one hour. Some of them were perched in trees several hundred metres away but they kept returning to fly over us -- prolonging those precious moments


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