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Isla Corazon was formed by sediment deposition of the Rio Chone on its way out to the ocean to the central coast of Ecuador.  The estuary of this river had been populated by mangroves for centuries but most of it has been destroyed to give way to shrimp farming, luckily the local community of Puerto [...]

Long ago I promised an extensive gallery of Boat-billed Herons Cochlearius cochlearius but I never got around to it.  Now that the summer doldrums have arrived I felt like it was necessary to fulfill my promise and dig up some shots for posting.  All of these pictures were taken during my visit to Cuero y [...]

When we left our intrepid explorers everyone was in a boat in the midst of a mangrove estuary in the Cuero y Salado Wildlife Refuge and monkeys had been sighted and  photographed…but there was still so much more to see!  One of the next marvelous sights was a bird that I had seen for the [...]

After our trip to the Cuero y Salado Wildlife Refuge was rained out on our first morning at The Lodge at Pico Bonito we rescheduled our visit for our second and last morning at the lodge.  Everyone wanted to get out into the mangroves (especially me seeing as I had never even seen a mangrove) [...]