Great Blue Herons
I first ran into one of these stately birds at Blanco State Park, and have since seen his cousins wherever …
Lesser Goldfinches, a love story
These cuties (male and female) started showing up at the feeder last week. They’re very small and apparently fearless, and …
The Thieving Birds of Puerto Lopez
The Frigate birds and Pelicans of Puerto Lopez, Ecuador have come up with fishing methods much more reliable than diving into the water at high speed over and over until you come up with a fish. Why go to all that effort when the kind fishermen of Puerto Lopez serve up plenty of food every day as they run a gauntlet of hungry birds while carrying overflowing baskets of fish?
Birds of the Mindo Cloudforest
QUITO, ECUADOR, February 11, 2023 — The Mindo Cloudforest, which covers 47,000 acres along the western slopes of the Andes …