Jocotoco antpita, Grallaria ridgelyi, at the Reserva Jocotoco
Very rare and only discovered in 1997; there are perhaps 500 of them in extreme SW Ecuador and a newly-discovered population of them just across the Rio Canchis in extreme NW Peru. The Reserva Tapichalaca was established to protect them.
Several of these large large antpittas at the Reserva have learned to come to a shelter on a Reserva trail at the same time each morning, where they are provided with pieces of earthworms, on which they feed. They walked up to within 6 feet of us.
Jocotoco antpita, Grallaria ridgelyi, at the Reserva Jocotoco
Very rare and only discovered in 1997; there are perhaps 500 of them in extreme SW Ecuador and a newly-discovered population of them just across the Rio Canchis in extreme NW Peru. The Reserva Tapichalaca was established to protect them.
Several of these large large antpittas at the Reserva have learned to come to a shelter on a Reserva trail at the same time each morning, where they are provided with pieces of earthworms, on which they feed. They walked up to within 6 feet of us.