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Cristalino Montage – Row 7
Two insects and four birds are in this week’s row of photos from my Cristalino Jungle Lodge montage. As a quick reminder of what this blog is about, I hastily threw together this photo sheet as a...
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Cristalino Montage – Row 8
Here are the identities of the birds and one plant in the eighth and final row of my Cristalino Montage. The first is the hyper-local Amazonian Tyrannulet, at Cristalino found only in scrubby...
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Gorillas in the Sunshine
I’m currently in Rwanda without a lengthy, prepared blog for today, so here are just a couple photos from yesterday’s outing with friends in the Virunga Mountains of the Northwest, right on the border...
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Afromontane – A New World (and Word)
I guess mountains are so rare in Africa, that an adjective has been coined to describe the forests found there. In the Neotropics, we say something more general, such as “tropical montane,” or “cloud...
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Tucson’s Sweetwater Wetlands – a Winter Snapshot
Sweetwater Wetlands is Tucson’s top birding location. A hundred years ago, this particular location was a rich mesquite woodland bordering a permanent river with cottonwood forest. Then with the...
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Rwanda Sunbird Confusion
It’s come to my attention that the sunbird photo I put in my Gorillas in the Sunshine post was actually a Stuhlmann’s Sunbird after all. Since I don’t have time to work on this problem myself at the...
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My Last Days in Tanzania
How is it possible that I was in a place called Udzungwa Mountains just over 3 weeks ago? Its seems a lifetime ago. In any event, photos are never to old to share on a blog. This entry could evolve...
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Great Baja Birding Report
Hot off the press are these photos from the Baja California Tour that I just finished leading with Steve Howell. I scouted this itinerary four years ago and have been frustrated at the seeming lack of...
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Cristalino By Night
Cristalino Jungle Lodge Nightlife Yes, another blog about Cristalino Jungle Lodge – sorry! I just love this place and miss it. I’m leading two tours there later this year and am really looking forward...
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Northern Peru – Local Specialties and Fun Birding
This coming July, I’ll be returning to Northern Peru for the fourth time in two years to lead a tour to this fine location. Easy in and easy out with flights to Tarapoto, a nice, paved highway to our...
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Carara National Park – A Sound Quiz
To introduce my contribution this week I’ll post an audio challenge. While leading my March Costa Rica tour this past week, I heard this unfamiliar vocalization which I recorded and tracked down. I was...
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Mystery Song From Carara is Rufous-breasted Wren
Judging from the very few daring guesses, this was a real tough sound quiz. As I mentioned in last week’s post, I was quite surprised when I looked up to see that this nearly ultrasonic song was being...
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Jamaica’s Endemic Birds – The First Six
Jamaica is probably the best Caribbean island for birding. It’s the only island where it is considered a reasonable task to see all of the endemics, and more endemics can be readily seen here than on...
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Jamaica’s Endemic Birds Part 2
In this second installment featuring Jamaica’s endemic bird species, I’ll complete the non-passerines, which includes some of the most exciting species on the island. The following photos are mostly...
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Jamaica’s Endemic Birds Part 3
The next five Jamaican endemics I’ll talk about are all suboscine passerines. I’m a compulsive categorizer of everything, and it is so gratifying to know how birds sort themselves out into families and...
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Jamaica’s Endemic Birds Part 4
This week I’ll discuss another five bird species endemic to Jamaica, the first half of the oscine passerines. Also called songbirds, these more “advanced” passerines don’t all actually have nice...
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Jamaica’s Endemic Birds Part 5
These final six endemic species of Jamaica fall at the end of the taxonomic order of birds (as listed by the American Ornithologists’ Union) and all but the last are part of the group known as the...
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Jamaica’s Endemic Subspecies #1
So, now after having delineated 28 species of birds endemic to Jamaica (including the two forms of the Streamertail, currently lumped but he AOU), it’s time I start introducing the endemic subspecies....
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Jamaica’s Endemic Subspecies #2
Here’s yet another set of six species found as endemic subspecies on Jamaica. Which ones should be considered separate species? Let’s have a look. Greater Antillean Elaenia occurs here in the higher...
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Jamaica’s Endemic Subspecies #3
In this final blog on Jamaican birds, I’ll write about the last five endemic subspecies and give honorable mention to one more near-endemic. The Bananaquit is a familiar bird throughout the Caribbean...
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