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More Buenaventura Birds

What a great place for birds!  It was great to be back in Buenaventura Reserve. Following up on my post from last year, here are a few more birds from Jocotoco Foundation’s. Buenaventura Reserve in the southern foothills of the … Continue reading

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Seeing Red in Tapichalaca

Take a look around the cloud forest and you will notice a lot of red accents in the dark green world. Here you can see a few of those red eye-poppers from Tapichalaca Reserve in southern Ecuador. Young leaves often start … Continue reading

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Copalinga Butterfly Bonanza

Happy New Year!  I’m sending this greeting from beautiful Copalinga Reserve, the twelfth addition to the Jocotoco Conservation Foundation reserve network. The reserve was originally established by Catherine Vits and Boudewijn De Roover 20 years ago, but only recently passed … Continue reading

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A Visit to Frog Heaven

It’s been a while since I visited my favorite ponds in Delaware where I have spent many hours photographing.  Carlos Martinez Rivera, herpetologist and frog conservationist with the Philadelphia Zoo, wanted to see Barking Treefrogs, so I was inspired to … Continue reading

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Yanacocha

Sitting high above Quito, Ecuador, Yanacocha Reserve is a convenient place to visit a temperate Andean forest.  Being so close to Ecuador’s capital, Yanacocha is the Jocotoco Conservation Foundation’s most visited reserve. Since clouds frequently envelope this forest, epiphytes (plants … Continue reading

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Narupa – Hidden Treasure

An inconspicuous trail in a bend of the road leads to Narupa Reserve, one of Jocotoco Conservation Foundation’s ten reserves. Narupa is located between the towns of Baeza and Coca where the Andes approach the Amazonian lowlands. A ten minute walk … Continue reading

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Jorupe Birds and More

In February my wife Debbie and I served as volunteer hosts once again at Jorupe Reserve.  The reserve, located on the southern border of Ecuador, is owned by the Jocotoco Conservation Foundation. We noticed a number of changes since our … Continue reading

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Copalinga

Copalinga, a delightful ecolodge, sits above the Rio Bombuscaro near the eastern base of the Andes in southern Ecuador. The lodge is owned and run by Catherine and Boudewijn, who built it after moving there from Belgium in 1998. Debbie … Continue reading

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Antisanilla Reserve more highlights

In addition to condors and eagles mentioned in my previous posts, plenty of great birds inhabit Antisanilla Reserve of the Jocotoco Conservation Foundation. Paramo pipits live in the high grasslands. Another common bird is the Bar-winged Cinclodes a member of … Continue reading

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Antisanilla—Great Wildlife High in the Andes

I spent my first week back in Ecuador photographing in the Jocotoco Conservation Foundation’s Antisanilla Reserve. Just 30 miles SE of Quito, it sits on the western slopes of Antisana Volcano. Most of the reserve is paramo, high-elevation Andean grassland. … Continue reading

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