Booted Racket-tail

This tree actually secrets a liquid that looks like blood when it is chopped. The liquid is used by locals as an anti-inflammatory/itching agent.

Savegre River Valley, San José, Costa Rica. June 2013.

Cloud forest around salento Colombia.

Cloud Forest, Singapore

Photo by Alexandra Gaudreau

Cloud forest seen from one of the high-level bridges at Selvatura cloudforest walkway, Monteverde. Costa Rica.

Cloud Forest, Singapore

I love the balance of tones and forms of the understory foliage along this little rivulet. Photographed on Society of Ethnobiology fieldtrip, March 1999.

Monteverde cloudforest, Costa Rica, March 2008. Most of the mosture reach the forest as clouds, mist and fog rather than rain. This is a habitat with a huge bio diversity e.g 100 mammal species, 400 birds and 420 orchids species

Purple-bibbed Whitetip (Female)

El Triunfo Biosphere Reserve, Chiapas, Mexico

La Tigra National Park

Pale-Mandibled Aracari. DSC01306

Savegre Hotel, San Gerardo de Dota, San José province, Costa Rica | July 9, 2017.

Mid-afternoon mist at Poas Volcano, Costa Rica. The high-altitude cloud forest is constantly foggy and cool.

Pale Mandibled Aracari in Mindo. DSC01323

Views of and from Wayqecha Research Station in the cloud forest

*nod to Russell Hoban*

Luxuriant vegetation seen in Selvatura cloudforest walkway, Monteverde, Costa Rica.

Seen in Bellavista Cloudforest Reserve.

Monteverde cloudforest, Costa Rica, March 2008. Most of the mosture reach the forest as clouds, mist and fog rather than rain. This is a habitat with a huge bio diversity e.g 100 mammal species, 400 birds and 420 orchids species

Lemon-Rumped (black and yellow birds) and Blue-Grey Tanagers feeding on bananas. The owner of the garden said he puts out one hundred bananas a day to keep the birds coming.