The half-day we spent at the Antisana Ecological Reserve in the highlands of Ecuador was one of the great highlights of our eight-day trip. ...

Milpe Bird Sanctuary, the second of the Mindo Cloudforest Foundation‘s preserves that we visited during our eight days of birding in Ecuador, is known...

Pretty much the last thing I expected to do today was see a first state record of a wood-warbler.  You see, tomorrow I am...

Back at the end of October and again in November I spotted the shrike that was reported hanging out at the Teddy Roosevelt Nature...

It is not every day that a birder from the northeastern United States gets to see a Slate-throated Whitestart, a member of what must...

The dirt road seemed interminably long.  The jouncing and bouncing and general uncomfortableness of riding in a van with seven other people down a...

The Chocó region of northwestern Ecuador and western Columbia has many endemic species, as Mike already let you know back in January.  While we...

For our fourth day of birding in Ecuador we had two stops planned.  The excellent but small Rio Salanche Bird Sanctuary, a property owned...