Birding trip report Bolivia Sep/Oct 2000
Part 3e. Pictures of sites near Riberalta (Beni)
John van der Woude, The Netherlands - http://johnbirding.wolweb.nl
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Main road into Riberalta, the motorbike town in the isolated Amazonian tropical lowland corner of eastern Bolivia. Many of the motorbikes serve as taxi, providing a permanent cool breeze, but also dust if it has not rained for more than a day or so… |
| Wooden bridge across a tropical forest stream just before the hamlet called Siete Julio, near Riberalta. In the woods alongside the stream were Sulphur-bellied Tyrant-Manakin, Iherings Antwren (probably the first observation in Beni province and the second only for Bolivia), Rose-breasted Chat, Green-and-Rufous Kingfisher, and others. |  |
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The inner courtyard of hotel Colonial in Riberalta. We had Pale-tailed Barbthroat foraging on the stem of the big tree in the background. |
| Lake Tumichucua, 30 minutes motorbike ride from Riberalta. The forest left is an island in this big lake. This (touristic) site is probably not very special for birding but canoeing around we got some nice trip ticks here, like White-eyed Attila, Horned Screamer, Osprey, and typically a Yellow-winged Cacique colony around a wasp nest. |  |
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One of the numerous meandering river beds to be seen from the air on the flight from Riberalta back to Trinidad. This is a wide (old) meander bend through tropical forest, and inside the floodplain is a newer and smaller meandering river. An expedition into this far-away region might be an ornithological dream. |