sand-islands

Updated: May 3, 2025

The large sand-islands, and miles of sandy beach, were also uncovered, and these, with the swarms of large aquatic birds; storks, herons, ducks, waders, and spoon-bills, which lined their margins in certain places, made the river view much more varied and animated than it is in the season of the flood.

Henry Walter Bates - The Naturalist on the River Amazons