We have another
fabulous trip to Central America planned
for next year. Most of our trips are “birding”
trips. Our main goal is to see birds but
that certainly isn’t all we find. We
look at butterflies, dragonflies, monkeys, frogs, snakes, etc.
I guess we really take
“nature” trips with an emphasis on birding.
For us, it’s not enough to just let our guide tell us what we are
seeing. We want to know the birds we are
looking for and be able to identify what we see.
We’ve traveled to
Central and South America many times and are really drawn to that area of the
world. When we took our first trip in 2004
to Trinidad and Tobago we were going to
see hundreds of birds that we had never seen before. Mark thought up a wonderful way for us to
study and learn these birds so we would know what we were looking at.
We went old school -
flashcards. After 13 years and many
different countries we have thousands of flash cards printed up.
Mark is still printing
up flashcards for new birds we will be seeing on our upcoming trip but this is (almost)
all the birds we will be studying for now.
Flashcards for our upcoming trip.
Green Ibis
We’ve got 4 months of
intense studying. It’s really a lot of
fun and keeps us excited about the trip.
I haven’t counted this 4” stack of paper (I don’t think I want to know).
Teri
I agree - learning is fun - but that is studying for all the exams at one time. Whew! Hopefully they'll be some overlap with what you already know! Looking forward to hearing more about your trip!
ReplyDeleteThere is a good bit of overlap with birds we've seen (or at least studied) in the past. And even with brand new birds we're familiar with the families (parrots, hummingbirds, etc) and that makes it somewhat easier.
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