These Scarlet Macaws (3 total) showed up at the salt lick near the Napo River in the upper Amazon basin to get salt and minerals lacking in their diet. We also saw the Cobalt-winged parakeets, the Blue-throat piping Guan there as well. Sometimes there is a wider selection but you pays ya money...There are dozens of these that have been IDed in that region. The birds sit in the trees and looked for predators while we sat very quietly below for about 2 ours. You can see the saltwater between the pair of the 3some. I picked up 3 singlets that really capture the birds and the site, one shown here. The Napo River is a wide shallow very muddy tributary of the Amazon.
These Scarlet Macaws (3 total) showed up at the salt lick near the Napo River in the upper Amazon basin to get salt and minerals lacking in their diet. We also saw the Cobalt-winged parakeets, the Blue-throat piping Guan there as well. Sometimes there is a wider selection but you pays ya money...There are dozens of these that have been IDed in that region. The birds sit in the trees and looked for predators while we sat very quietly below for about 2 ours. You can see the saltwater between the pair of the 3some. I picked up 3 singlets that really capture the birds and the site, one shown here. The Napo River is a wide shallow very muddy tributary of the Amazon.
These Scarlet Macaws (3 total) showed up at the salt lick near the Napo River in the upper Amazon basin to get salt and minerals lacking in their diet. We also saw the Cobalt-winged parakeets, the Blue-throat piping Guan there as well. Sometimes there is a wider selection but you pays ya money...There are dozens of these that have been IDed in that region. The birds sit in the trees and looked for predators while we sat very quietly below for about 2 ours. You can see the saltwater between the pair of the 3some. I picked up 3 singlets that really capture the birds and the site, one shown here. The Napo River is a wide shallow very muddy tributary of the Amazon.
Scarlet Macaws. Yeah U can get a closeup sitting on a perch at your neighbors' and u can see a jaguar or snow leopard in a zoo but seeing them in the wild is so much cooler, real if u will. See Alt text for more description.
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