ChuckHolliday:
Introduction - Southern Amazonian Ecuador birding trip with High Lonesome
ChuckHolliday:
Juan Carlos Calvachi, our guide
ChuckHolliday:
The road to Reserva Tachipilaca
ChuckHolliday:
In the lobby of the Man Ging Hotel, Guayaquil
ChuckHolliday:
Young snail kite, near Santa Rosa
ChuckHolliday:
Holy Heliconia, Batman, it's the Penguin!
ChuckHolliday:
Lesser seed-finch, Oryzoborus angolensis funereus, south of Guayaquil, Ecuador
ChuckHolliday:
Our cabin at Uracca Lodge
ChuckHolliday:
Green honeycreeper, Chlorophanes spiza, at Umbrellabird Lodge
ChuckHolliday:
Lined antshrike, Thamnophilus tenuepunctatus
ChuckHolliday:
Female Green-crowned brilliant hummingbird, Heliodoxa jacula, at Umbrellabird Lodge
ChuckHolliday:
Torrent duck, Merganetta armata, near the old Zamora road: love those feet!
ChuckHolliday:
A wet day in the mountains
ChuckHolliday:
Gray-cheeked parakeet, Brotogeris pyrrhoptera, Reserva Jorupe
ChuckHolliday:
Lanceolated monklet, Micromonacha lanceolata, near Copalinga Lodge
ChuckHolliday:
Toasting pig skin, an Ecuadorean speciality. One walks up to the vendor and indicates where and how much skin one wants to be toasted; the vendor obliges.
ChuckHolliday:
Toasted pig skin, an Ecuadorean speciality. The taste and consistency are wonderful - a blend of bacon and Turkish delight.
ChuckHolliday:
Poor pic of a Pacific royal-flycatcher, Onychorhynchus occidentalis, near Umbrellabird Lodge, Ecuador
ChuckHolliday:
Roadside hawk, Rupornis magnirostris, at the side of the road near Palenda
ChuckHolliday:
White-necked Jacobin, Florisuga mellivora, at Umbrellabird Lodge
ChuckHolliday:
Red-masked parakeet, Psittacara erythrogenys, practicing "The way of the empty foot" at Urraca Lodge
ChuckHolliday:
Ornate flycatcher, Reserva Maycu
ChuckHolliday:
Kingbird with a hawk moth near Umbrellabird Lodge
ChuckHolliday:
Violaceous jay, Cyanocorax violaceus, Copalinga Lodge
ChuckHolliday:
Brown violetear hummingbird, Colibri delphinae, at Umbrellabird Lodge
ChuckHolliday:
Green-crowned brilliant hummingbird, Heliodoxa jacula, at Umbrellabird Lodge
ChuckHolliday:
Young Cecropia tree
ChuckHolliday:
Gas is cheap in Ecuador
ChuckHolliday:
The elephant in the kapok tree
ChuckHolliday:
Purplish jacamar, Galbula chalcothorax, Copalinga Lodge
