Well roared II

Alright, now with Sound:

Inspector Rudeboy investigates

During the Search for Tapaculos: under a big overhanging stone (after inspection declared as not suited for bouldering)...

leftovers...

and different leftovers..

on the way footprints all over

Left as suspect is only the Puma. Boring crime-story but a nice experience.

Buenaventura V

The last week searching for the El Oro Tapaculo in Buenaventura started. After that it's finally back to the ocean again. Whereas looking for Tapaculos is nice aswell...

Buenaventura IV

 

Buenaventura III

Thats the way the earthworms look like over here:

a long-tailed hummingbird at the bar

Fotos from the archives II

The speed squeeze (all captures Nayya)

sequence here:

Buenaventura II

A few pics from work:

Through this and similar I have to work my way all the time with the machete, all with 45 degrees inclination:

 World-exclusive: one of the few pictures of an El Oro Tapaculo in the wild

Lunch-break

The hut in which we spend the night in the field from time to time:

 A hummingbird nest:

At the Tapaculo-dentist:

Fotos from the archives I

 liquid right-handed sugar

switch in Indo

Buenaventura I

A few pics from my workplace. First a little overview: on the next picture everything in sight plus about the same area on the other side of the hills.

A few advantages of regular rain:

Tapaculo I

8 days of searching and 2 days of trying to catch it the first Tapaculo is measured and banded...

Well roared

Sorry no sound for the moment, I have to re-edit...

teasing-time in the afternoon II

well you know me, I couldn't resist in teasing it a bit...

Quito - Piñas

From Quito to the Buenaventura-reserve next to Piñas in 2 days - a motorcycledream on the Panamericana with a short detour through the Amazone forest.

Surfrack

How many people do you need in Ecuador to weld a surfrack?

Birds on sticks

We had the priviledge through our contact with Cesar Garzon to be able to have a look through the collection of the Museo Ecuadoriano de Ciencias Naturales (MECN).

Thats the way the drawers look over there: dissected and labeled birds on wooden sticks

the collection of endangered species

Three from the colección especial: on the left different species of Tapaculo, in the middle the Jocotoco, the heraldic animal of the der Fundación, who owns the Buenaventura-Reserve and on the right the Perico de Orcés, the parakeet of my thesis

Similar to this one, the Tapaculo is supposed to look like that I am searching with Claudia in Buenaventura until the end of january

The Lilacine Amazone (in the moment getting leveled up to species-status) that I'm going to be searching for three month in Manabi und Esmeraldas afterwards

Hannes (thesis with the Perico de Orcés), Claudia (my Tapaculo-boss), Cesar Garzon from the MECN and the other guy there from the Tapaculo-Project

Botanical Gardens Quito