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Masked Crimson Tanager - Sani Lodge, Sucumbios, Ecuador
Bird Species (# 648) that I photographed and placed on my Flickr Photostream. Overall goal is 1000.
eBird Report and listing details - macaulaylibrary.org/asset/616327514
Hoatzin - Sani Lodge, Sucumbios, Ecuador
Bird Species (# 581) that I photographed and placed on my Flickr Photostream. Overall goal is 1000.
eBird Report and listing details - macaulaylibrary.org/asset/614996254
Smooth-billed Ani - Sani Lodge, Sucumbios, Ecuador
Bird Species (# 570) that I photographed and placed on my Flickr Photostream. Overall goal is 1000.
eBird Report and listing details - macaulaylibrary.org/asset/615022673
Snail Kite - Sani Lodge, Sucumbios, Ecuador
Bird Species (# 566) that I photographed and placed on my Flickr Photostream. Overall goal is 1000.
eBird Report and listing details - macaulaylibrary.org/asset/614858774
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I recently returned from 16 days in Ecuador with Tropical Birding on their Ecuador Photo Tour.
www.tropicalbirding.com/photo-tours/ecuador-photo-tour/
We spent 5 days at Sani Lodge on a small lake close to the Napo River, a tributary of the Amazon. The Sani people were amazing, extremely hospitable, very skilled paddlers and wonderful birders.
This cuckoo was photographed at Sani Lodge.
Although widespread in both Amazonia and chocó forest, Little Cuckoo is fairly uncommon and often difficult to see. They inhabit the thick lower growth of woodlands and forest edges, frequently occurring near water.
Coccycua is a small genus of birds in the cuckoo family, Cuculidae. Its three species (Little, Dwarf and Ash-colored) are found in the tropical Americas.
Wikipedia and Neotropical Birds.
Yasuni NP, Amazon, Ecuador
On one of our many enjoyable canoe trips through the blackwater oxbow 'canals', we were trying to coax an antwren out of some water-level brush and into view when Juan spotted this beautiful trogon (and it's mate) up above our heads - it was a great find and the dappled backlight was a welcome bonus.
Photographed in Sani lodge, Yasuni national park, Ecuador.
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Yasuni NP, Amazon, Ecuador
I saw two small flocks of these aracaris on two separate days & took several hunrdred...but what with all the foliage in the way, the birds looking in the wrong direction, etc, etc I was only satisfied with about 3 or 4 pics as 'keepers'...but better than none! Even though you can't see the namesake 'bands' on the bird's breast, this one was still my favourite.
Green Honeycreeper (Chlorophanes spiza, fem) photographed on October 17th, 2018 from the Sani Lodge canopy observation tower in Ecuador.
I love the name these Monkeys have been given. They are nocturnal (you only have to look at the size of their eyes to realise this) but they can be tempted out of their nest in daylight by making a lot of noise so they take a look to see what's going on. Don't blame me for disturbing them though, blame the guide.
As for the animals themselves being noisy, I cannot confirm this.
Scarlet-crowned Barbet (Capito aurovirens, fem) photographed on October 17th, 2018 at the Sani Lodge feeders in Ecuador.
Yasuni NP - Amazon Basin, Ecuador
Not often I get this close to the skittish kingfisher, so nice to be able to share some close-up detail.
Blue Dacnis (Dacnis cayana, fem) photographed on October 17th, 2018 from the Sani Lodge canopy observation tower in Ecuador.
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I recently returned from 16 days in Ecuador with Tropical Birding on their Ecuador Photo Tour.
www.tropicalbirding.com/photo-tours/ecuador-photo-tour/
We spent 5 days at Sani Lodge on a small lake close to the Napo River, a tributary of the Amazon. The Sani people were amazing, extremely hospitable, very skilled paddlers and wonderful birders.
This nunbird was photographed at Sani Lodge.
The Black-fronted Nunbird is one of the four nunbirds in the genus Monasa. All four species are large, black puffbirds with pale bills, best identified by the presence and location of white in their plumages and the color of their bills. The Black-fronted is the only nunbird with all-dark plumage and an orange bill. It is widespread in Amazonia,
The puffbirds and their relatives in the near passerine family Bucconidae are tropical tree-dwelling insectivorous birds that are found from South America up to Mexico. Together with their closest relatives, the jacamars, they form a divergent lineage within the order Piciformes, though the two families are sometimes elevated to a separate order Galbuliformes.
Puffbirds are sit-and-wait hunters, perching unmoving for long periods, while watching for insect prey.
Wikipedia and Neotropical Birds.
Yasuni NP, Amazon Basin - Ecuador
This little kingfisher was content to let us float silently next to it as it fished from this dead log at the edge of the oxbow lake. My target, the elusive Pygmy Kingfisher, continued to elude me on this trip - maybe next time!
Sani Lodge, Yasuni NP, Ecuador
That's a cool exotic fruit it's munching on - wish I knew what it was!
Spiny devil katydid (Panacanthus cuspidatus) from Sani Lodge Principal, Ecuador.
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You might say. "Hey, you've already posted a picture of Hypsiboas punctatus! Why, in the endless diversity that is #Sanilodge are you giving us the same old $h*t!?!"
To which I first respond, "Why you ungrateful little $^#$%#"
Then after a moment's self-reflection and brutal honestly I come to the epiphany... I need the likes, the shares. The dopamine rush of your support and adulation, these lowly cockroach posts just aren't doing it for me!
This also just so happens to illustrate the transition in time from green to red in a single individual. But you know, mostly the star, fandom thing.
See more amazing #amphibiansofSani.
Photographed for the #SaniProject2017. Follow us at Destination Ecuador #paulbertner.
I recently returned from 16 days in Ecuador with Tropical Birding on their Ecuador Photo Tour.
www.tropicalbirding.com/photo-tours/ecuador-photo-tour/
Five days were spent at Sani Lodge on a small lake close to the Napo River, a tributary of the Amazon. The Sani people were amazing, extremely hospitable, very skilled paddlers and wonderful birders.
This young lady was photographed at Sani Lodge.
The range of the scarlet-crowned barbet is the western-central Amazon Basin centered on the Amazon River-Marañón Rivers. The species is found in all of eastern Amazonian Ecuador.
Capito is a genus of eleven species of barbet in the Capitonidae family.
New World barbets, family Capitonidae, are near passerine birds of the order Piciformes which inhabit humid forests in Central and South America. They are closely related to the toucans.
The New World barbets are plump birds, with short necks and large heads. They get their name from the bristles which fringe their heavy bills. Most species are brightly coloured and live in tropical forest.
They eat fruit and insects. These birds do not migrate.
Wikipedia.
Photo from Sani lodge, bordering Yasuni national park, Ecuador.
Thanks to Bernhard Jacobi for the ID.
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I spent 16 days in Ecuador in August with Tropical Birding on their Ecuador Photo Tour.
www.tropicalbirding.com/photo-tours/ecuador-photo-tour/
We had 5 days at Sani Lodge on a small lake close to the Napo River, a tributary of the Amazon. The Sani people were amazing, extremely hospitable, very skilled paddlers and wonderful birders.
This kingfisher was photographed close to Sani Lodge.
Of the five species of more or less exclusively Neotropical kingfishers, the Green-and-rufous Kingfisher is arguably one of the most attractive.
Besides the Amazon Basin and the Guianas, also Colombia with most of Venezuela, (the Orinoco River basin), a disjunct range of the green-and-rufous kingfisher occurs on the southeast Brazil coast.
The American green kingfishers are the kingfisher genus Chloroceryle, which are native to tropical Central and South America, with one species extending north to south Texas.
There are four species:
American pygmy kingfisher, Chloroceryle aenea
Green-and-rufous kingfisher, Chloroceryle inda
Green kingfisher, Chloroceryle americana
Amazon kingfisher, Chloroceryle amazona
The only kingfisher we did not see at Sani Lodge was the Green.
Wikipedia and Neotropical Birds.
What's in a name?
A brown vine or liana snake, or is it a common sharp-nosed snake? Common names pose an inherent danger of mis-communication. They often rely on physical characteristics that may or may not be polymorphic within a population, and thus your green vine snake and brown vine snake may be one and the same species. Moreover, different cultures, languages, geographical ranges, etc... a huge variety of obfuscating factors make common names unreliable, which is why whenever possible the binomial latin name is preferred. Philodryas argentea, ah, much clearer...Or is it Xenoxybelis argenteus...hmmmm...
Taxonomy isn't necessarily a field that you would think experiences revolutionary advances, however, to a discipline which once relied on observation, physiological determinants, natural history and more recently, advances in microscopy, genetics has done just that. However, this has also opened up a whole new set of questions and dilemmas. Reconciling earlier identifications with new genetic analyses which may not square. Genetics is not just an additional tool in the kit of scientific methodology, it is a usurper, and many other perfectly valid, and important tools have fallen out of favour as a result.
Moreover, the definition of species, ironically, seems to be evolving with our new tools. The old definition of a distinct population which lives, and reproduces together to produce viable offspring is under attack. Genetic homologies are finding more and more support. And yet, the variability of the gene pool within a breeding population is a difficult thing to separate from marker genes for a species. To a certain extent, this is a line in the sand.
There is no argument that genetics is a valuable and powerful tool which can parse out differences and provide a degree of exactitude beyond morphological observation, to the very base-pair essence of an individual. This is reductionism. It is amazing the degree of detail it can provide, but it is dangerous, and its risks are glossed over in academia in the pell-mell pursuit down the rabbit hole to publish, always something new, always new knowledge (regardless of its merit). As one starts describing genes, quarks, gluons, the stuff that make up life, one becomes gradually more and more removed from what life actually is. Are we more than the sum of our parts? Perhaps in our quest for knowledge, our dissection of life, we have killed the patient and our post-mortem is not as close to "Truth" as we thought. Nowadays, specialization, often to an absurd degree is the norm. Rare is the renaissance man, the polymath. Nature doesn't have separate classrooms for physics, biology, chemistry, etc...it is all in the open air, messy and wonderful.
And so what's in a name? - Apparently a convoluted history of contending ideologies, convictions, descriptions, and emotions.
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Photographed for the #SaniProject2017. Follow us at @destinationecuador #Sanilodge #paulbertner.
Yasuni NP, Amazon Basin - Ecuador
This small dead tree in the middle of the oxbow was a popular perch, with the tree being (begrudgingly) shared by martins, swallows, flycatchers and this kingfisher.
A colourful tortoise orbweaver (Encyosaccus sexmaculata). A morphological variant of the same species displaying orange and black colours (previously posted as a halloween themed post) has several potential toxic models in the area, amongst the leaf beetles (Chrysomelidae). Though Mullerian mimicry is not to be ruled out, my bet is on mimicry.
Photographed for the #SaniProject2017. Follow us at Destination Ecuador #Sanilodge #Paulbertner.
Possession is 9/10ths of the law, and male rainfrogs (Pristimantis acuminatus) are very aware of this. Fertilization is all external, thus any frog could potentially usurp and father the next generation. Enter amplexus, the anuran's effective if slightly inelegant solution. Amplexus is essentially a non-reproductive, long-term hug in which the smaller male is well positioned to fertilize the female's eggs as they are laid.
So, is this a sweet adorable hug amongst lovers? Or is it a jealous, domineering male exerting his will over a tyrranized and vulnerable female? Chill out, and stop anthropomorphizing, it's just amplexus and they all do it, Geeze! See more #amphibiansofSani.
Photographed for the #SaniProject2017. Follow us at Destination Ecuador #Sanilodge #paulbertner.
I recently returned from 16 days in Ecuador with Tropical Birding on their Ecuador Photo Tour.
www.tropicalbirding.com/photo-tours/ecuador-photo-tour/
We spent 5 days at Sani Lodge on a small lake close to the Napo River, a tributary of the Amazon. The Sani people were amazing, extremely hospitable, very skilled paddlers and wonderful birders.
This owl was photographed near the Sani village on the banks of the Napo River.
The crested owl is found in Central America and northern South America, where it occurs in Belize, Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Costa Rica, Ecuador, El Salvador, French Guiana, Guatemala, Guyana, Honduras, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama, Peru, Suriname, and Venezuela. It is found in the Amazon Basin except in the north-west basin region with western Guyana, Venezuela, and central-eastern Colombia.
The crested owl is a species of owl in the True Owl family Strigidae. It is the only species (monotypic), in the genus Lophostrix.
Wikipedia.
Photo from Sani lodge, Ecuador.
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👣-Translocation
⏳-time in captivity
📷 - in situ
- studio
🎨 - Use of cloning or extensive post processing
The mouse opossum (Marmosa sp.) can appear like it is all face; huge eyes, large whiskers, and a powerful nose, a triumvirate of sensation.
And, when you live in the world of the senses, amplified and concentrated, you can get a little twitchy! Probably why it is not the hissing, odorous, rodent of ill-repute many have come to know and fear when doing their spring cleaning. Rather, it is shy, nocturnal and eschews human contact.
An opportunist and a prolific breeder, It is a survivor and as such, one of the most commonly encountered nocturnal mammals here at #Sanilodge.
Photographed for the #SaniProject2017. Follow us at Destination Ecuador #Paulbertner.
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I recently spent 5 days at Sani Lodge on a small lake close to the Napo River, a tributary of the Amazon. The Sani people were amazing, extremely hospitable, very skilled paddlers and wonderful birders.
This bird was photographed from the Sani Lodge tower.
The Gilded Barbet is a brightly colored bird of western Amazonian forests found in Venezuela, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia, and Brazil.
Capito is a genus of eleven species of barbet in the Capitonidae family.
New World barbets, family Capitonidae, are near passerine birds of the order Piciformes which inhabit humid forests in Central and South America. They are closely related to the toucans.
The New World barbets are plump birds, with short necks and large heads. They get their name from the bristles which fringe their heavy bills. Most species are brightly coloured and live in tropical forest.
They eat fruit and insects.
Wikipedia and Neotropical Birds