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Torrents of Birds Fill Iquitos Plaza Each Night
In Iquitos Peru crowds watch nightly roosting swallows form a vast dark cloud over Plaza de Armas after 6 pm and depart at dawn. Ornithologists estimate millions, likely southern martins migrating from Bolivia Paraguay and Argentina. Residents recall prior mayoral attempts to deter birds with cut branches and the improvised roosts built by locals.
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Iquitos Plaza
N.Y
Macondo
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Edith Power de Olive
Iquitos
John P. O’neill
Louisiana State University Museum of Natural Science
Bolivia
Paraguay
Argentina
Capistrano
Lorenzo Vargas
O'Neill
Plaza da Armas
Plaza 28 de Julio
Golondrinas
Amazon River
Amazon
Atlantic Ocean
Europe
A. G. Eiffel
David Clive
Alfred Hitchcock
Philippe Helsen
Belgium
Olive