Suriname, 7th day, Bigi Pan

This is video about Bigi Pan nature reserve near Nieuw-Nickerie.

This video says about itself:

Bigipan in Suriname is a nature reserve with beautiful birds, fish and nature.

Suriname, 9 February.

As described earlier, yesterday we arrived in Nieuw-Nickerie.

Nieuw-Nickerie is the only town in Suriname where the house sparrow was introduced successfully from Europe; though there a few reports of this species from Paramaribo as well.

Today, east from Nieuw-Nickerie. To Bigi Pan, in motor boats which need to be hauled across a muddy watershed.

Snowy egrets. A great kiskadee. A grey kingbird.

Then, a limpkin on a bank. This bird looks a bit, in size and in body shape, like a heron; but it is more related to rails. It eats apple snails, like the snail kite. However, the kite catches the snails flying above the water; while the limpkin gets them, wading in the water. Limpkins suffer from hunting in Suriname.

Orange-winged parrots. A rufescent tiger-heron under a bush on the bank of the canal leading to the open water of Bigi Pan.

A striated heron.

A black-collared hawk. A white-necked heron. Quite some ospreys, sitting on dead trees and flying around.

Neotropic cormorants, also on dead trees.

White-winged swallows.

Also: an anhinga.

A juvenile, still whitish, little blue heron.

On a tree trunk, a straight-billed woodcreeper.

A pied water-tyrant. A great horned owl.

A lineated woodpecker.

A tri-colored heron.

We are going back. Spectacled caiman on a canal bank.