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Old meets new on the balcony of the historic main house at Rio Negro Fazenda Ranch in Brazil.

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Two men try to shield their faces as clouds of dust billow up from a dirt road. This road, now dry, was flooded a few months earlier.

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Two women wash clothes in the marsh while their children watch from a boat. Pantanal, Brazil.

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Three men try to shield their faces as clouds of dust billow up from a dirt road. This road, now dry, was flooded a few months earlier.

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Three men try to shield their faces as clouds of dust billow up from a dirt road. This road, now dry, was flooded a few months earlier.

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Pantaneiros (cowboys) walk their horses through the marsh in the Pantanal, Brazil.

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A migrant worker plows fields in Brazil’s Pantanal. He will work from sunup to sundown seven days a week for three months straight.

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Colonial spiders hunt from the trees for large insects in the Brazilian Pantanal.

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A neotropical stick grasshopper aka horsehead grasshopper (Pseudoproscopia sp.) in the tall grass of the Rio Negro Fazenda Ranch. There are few cattle on this ranch, so the grass remains high and the grass-related insects are abundant. Pantanal, Brazil.

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A neotropical stick grasshopper aka horsehead grasshopper (Pseudoproscopia sp.) in the tall grass of the Rio Negro Fazenda Ranch. There are few cattle on this ranch, so the grass remains high and the grass-related insects are abundant. Pantanal, Brazil.

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A neotropical stick grasshopper aka horsehead grasshopper (Pseudoproscopia sp.) in the tall grass of the Rio Negro Fazenda Ranch. There are few cattle on this ranch, so the grass remains high and the grass-related insects are abundant. Pantanal, Brazil.

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A praying mantis in the tall grass of the Rio Negro Fazenda Ranch. There are few cattle on this ranch, so the grass remains high and the grass-related insects are abundant. Pantanal, Brazil.

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A black-hooded parakeet (Aratinga nenday) in Brazil’s Pantanal.

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A black-hooded parakeet (Aratinga nenday) in Brazil’s Pantanal.

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Peach-fronted parakeets in flight in Brazil’s Pantanal.?

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A blue-fronted (a.k.a. turquoise-fronted) parrot (Amazona aestiva) in Brazil’s Pantanal region.

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An orange-winged parrot in Brazil’s Pantanal region.

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White woodpeckers (Melanerpes candidus) in the Pantanal, Brazil.

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A snail kite (Rosthramus sociabilis) in the Pantanal, Brazil.

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A green-barred woodpecker (Colaptes melanochloros)in Brazil’s Pantanal.

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A chestnut-eared aracari (Pteroglossus castanotis) in Pantanal, Brazil.

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A chestnut-eared aracari (Pteroglossus castanotis) in Pantanal, Brazil.

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A southern lapwing (Vanellus chilensis) stands on one foot in the Pantanal, Brazil.

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A southern screamer (Chauna torquata) in the Pantanal, Brazil.

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A female bare-faced curassow (Crax fasciolata fasciolata) in Pantanal, Brazil.

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A female bare-faced curassow (Crax fasciolata fasciolata) in Pantanal, Brazil.

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A male bare-faced curassow (Crax fasciolata fasciolata) in Pantanal, Brazil.

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Sleeping through the day, a great potoo bird blends perfectly with the tree it’s resting on. Potoos are one of the most well camouflaged birds in South America.

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Endangered wood storks in a tree in the Pantanal, Brazil.

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A jabiru stork and its nest in the Pantanal, one of the world’s largest wetlands, in Brazil.

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Jabiru storks and their nest in the Pantanal, one of the world’s largest wetlands, in Brazil.

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A jabiru stork eats a piranha in the Pantanal, one of the world’s largest wetlands, in Brazil.

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A jabiru stork cleans its feathers in the Pantanal, one of the world’s largest wetlands, in Brazil.

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A jabiru stork in flight in the Pantanal, one of the world’s largest wetlands, in Brazil.

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