Alex indicated he'd heard that a Potoo had been seen at Guango a few days before.  He hadn't actually seen one in several years.  W...

After success with the seedsnipes and some of the other high elevation passerines in the last post we descended a little to try for Giant Co...

After scoring the seedsnipes at 14,000 feet we descended the mountain.  To at least 13,750 feet down to the brushiness that gives way to the...

Plural no less! Four times turned out to be the charm for the seedsnipes, along with arriving fairly early in the morning.  Our driver spo...

Get out in the woods!  I've seen 4 the last week. First one was in the pine stand at Sarett where the trees are looking a little too t...

We spent lunch of the first day again at the Tambor Condor restaurant, just down the road from the cliffs where the condors nest.  Last year...

The paramo shortgrass seems to fill a similar niche as some of the shortgrass prairie of our central west.  But the arid appearing paramo wa...