Our last afternoon of Ecuador birding saw us upstream of the claylicks birding around a Sani village (can you say Roasted Palm Grubs for lu...

 Can you get tired of Scarlet Macaws?  The answer should be no, but as long as the macaws were about there wouldn't be any other birds. ...

 The parrot licks along the river were just the beginning of gorgeous birds eating dirt.  After the amazons departed for the forest we cont...

 Parrots weren't the only thing we saw from the river, the Amazon river basin has interesting water birds too! Pied Plovers were new for...

Or green on orange, either one. Our second to last morning in Ecuador found us initially jockeying for position amidst a flotilla of tourist...

 It's been a few years since I've seen an Iceland Gull so I was pretty excited to see that the 1st winter whitewing on the south pie...

 A lot of times on birding trips the evenings can be somewhat of a struggle.  A person is hot, tired, likely borderline dehydrated, and quit...