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It's the easiest, by far. Direct flight to Panama City on Copa. The lodge picks you up at the airport, and takes care of everything. They have several very good to excellent guides. Somewhat geared to birding, but there was a group there looking only for monkeys and sloths. A couple of friends we...

From your list, for wildlife: [quote]2. Amazon trip via Peru[/quote] There are some good lodges several miles up and down the Amazon river from Iquitos, and they have very good guides. The lodges are in the middle of pristine forest. This has the largest diversity of life, though not necessar...

[quote]I can draw some parallels between the Aborigines and American Indians. The Aborigines do not live on reservations per se, but many live in government built and funded communities. The one I saw first hand on a number of occasions was the Jervis Bay Territory. It was exactly as you would imagi...

We had a local guide who knows the owls well. When it got dark he immitated their call. He moved us to a few different spots on the trail. It took a couple of hours. When it flew in he hit it with his light. Luckily it stuck around a while which helped with the photo. I took at least 50 bad ones ...

[quote]I prefer Celebrity. [/quote] Same, I've done 3 with them. Food was very good and I liked the age of the passengers, mostly middle aged empty nest couples. Princess was very good too. Norwegian was a step down, but it was an old ship and we got a huge discount, so no complaints at all....

[quote]I’m sure there would be tons of stuff to photograph. Be cool to get some photos of some Toucans.[/quote] There is all kinds of cool stuff. On the last trip to Ecuador, in addition to tons of hummingbird species, we had Toucans, Owls, Cock of the Rocks, Condors, Puffbirds, Antpittas, Trogo...

South of Tallahassee. I'd look east of Apalachicola, it's not very developed for a good ways. Carabelle area, St. Marks area... ...

[quote]pretty dumb and cheesy[/quote] I never did continue with the series, just not my thing. From a post I made 7 years ago: [quote]Reading it was interesting, the author has a ton of influences and it felt like he threw them all in a blender and made a book from it. Hunger Games, Lord of t...

[quote]Did you go with a group on one of the organized birding trips?[/quote] Both ways. The first three trips were to Costa Rica and I planned them myself. And I was really just learning. Then Panama at a birding lodge (Canopy Tower) and that just blew away Costa Rica. And then I kept moving...