Ok this bird is cool.  And with travel restrictions making the planet feel bigger as international ares become inaccessible it feels a littl...

After 3 or 4 days at Shiripuno we moved one river north and arrived at Sani Lodge.  After working our way down the Napo our guides canoed us...

Our final morning at Shiripuno was spent ... leaving Shiripuno.  It was a 3-4 hour boat trip back upstream (and given we had about that in t...

The larger forest floor birds were some of the more interesting ones we encountered at Shiripuno (though admittedly we often saw them atop t...

After the long walk we boated back downstream often seeing turtles.  And frequently seeing butterflies.  So it would make sense that we woul...

... but no pic.  We'll get there. The last full day at Shiripuno was a LONG walk.  I'm not complaining.  But we covered some groun...

Continuing on the Topaz afternoon boat ride we drifted along the river.  At one point we passed a Great Black Hawk.  The boatman cut the eng...