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Latin America

Judi Lynn

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5. Whoa! I didn't know it extended into Chile until seeing this article. It seems magical.

Reply to abqtommy (Reply #2)

Fri Dec 4, 2020, 07:03 AM

Dec 2020

Have read about it for years, the part in Argentina, that is, as a site where they have discovered so many long extinct, very prehistoric critters, all kinds of dinosaurs, etc.

Congrats for beating us to that information. South America is amazing.

It's so strange the other Americas have been almost totally ignored by public information sources in the US. Looks as if the "We're No. 1" idea took over everything here!

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Fantastic beasts (and birds of Patagonia) and where to find them [View all] Judi Lynn Dec 2020 OP

What, no Magellenic Woodpecker? Let me fix that . . . hatrack Dec 2020 #1

Wow! That's a wonderful bird! What a photo. Have never seen a little face like that one's. Judi Lynn Dec 2020 #3

IIRC, they're the South American analogue to the Pileated Woodpecker . . . hatrack Dec 2020 #4

That is good to hear. Didn't know they had something similar to the redwood forests. Judi Lynn Dec 2020 #6

Speaking of Patagonia, here's some bucket list material hatrack Dec 2020 #7

Thanks! I actually know where Patagonia is since I looked it up once. Patagonia is an area abqtommy Dec 2020 #2

Whoa! I didn't know it extended into Chile until seeing this article. It seems magical. Judi Lynn Dec 2020 #5