10,000 Birds
NOVEMBER 6, 2015
Currently endemic to a single valley system in the Andes of Ecuador, this species escaped detection from researchers for thirty years until the rediscovery of a few pairs in November 1998 by Dr. Neils Krabbe. In November 2010, I backpacked for fifty days via the reasonably good bus system in Ecuador.
10,000 Birds
DECEMBER 27, 2023
During my trip to Peru (where I almost got lost in the jungle trying to locate a rumoured Andean C**k-of-the-rock lek), my rambles in South-east Asia and also this last trip to Ecuador, I realised that this is more than possible because compared to the forests in these regions our European ones seem like a walk in the park.
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10,000 Birds
AUGUST 1, 2015
They are listed by the IUCN as near-threatened and their scarcity and localized distribution is indicated by the fact that they were only discovered by science in 1935. They cannot be confused with any other Mexican jay and the only similar species is the White-tailed Jay of Ecuador and Peru. A Tufted Jay poses nicely.
10,000 Birds
MARCH 3, 2020
Like a shy stepchild, it’s always eclipsed by the wonders of Brazil, Ecuador, Colombia, etc. This is more than eBird reports–a checklist generated from the citizen science database lists only 1,413 species. Plate 97: Andean and partly Andean antshrikes, illustrated by Oscar Tintaya.
10,000 Birds
JUNE 21, 2024
This is not, it should be noted, the sort of book in which a journeyman nature writer distills the ins and outs of some discrete marvel of natural or physical science to a lay readership. Based in Denmark and the U.K, Based in Denmark and the U.K,
10,000 Birds
DECEMBER 28, 2015
At least she contributed to science… My Best Bird of the Year was a Snowy Plover , which I first spotted along the Florida Panhandle. I love participating in citizen science! And it wasn’t even a country-first! I saw the plovers multiple times after that, and I called in the band colors when I photographed them.
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