There are a lot of purple flowers in the Pantanal.
There are also some other colours of flowers.
But mostly purple.
They stand out a lot from the green
Everywhere is purple and green
The purple flowers are tiny
The bees seem to like them
They spend a lot of time going flower to flower
Buzz Buzz
This is a black collared hawk.
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His collar is more dark brown than black.
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But they didn’t let us pick the name.
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I would have called him something different.
Like the lazyboy hawk.
Because he had this funny leaning back posture.
Like a hawk in a lazyboy.
But I wouldn’t want to make him angry.
He was probably just having trouble holding on in the wind.
We saw an agami heron. Our guide was very impressed.
Bird watchers come from all over the world to see one, and most don’t succeed.
We were more impressed by the toucan. You’ll never see a heron on a cereal box.
Next to the agami heron was a boat-billed heron.
He’s almost funny looking enough for a cereal box.
The agami flew away before we got any good pictures.
This is a completely different capybara family.
Look at how many babies they have!
That’s not even all of them.
That one on the left didn’t seem to like hanging out with the others.
They were pretty sleepy.
The cormorants looked funny trying to dry their wings in the wind.
They were bobbing up and down, surfing on the branches.
They were often in the water but flew away when our boat got close.
So we have a lot of pictures of cormorant butts taking off.
Haven’t you always wanted to see bird butts?
This one is kind of from the side so you can see his face
But this one is all butt.
Bye bye birdie.
