Finally scientist II

It took quite some time but now there's a new paper

El Oro Tapaculo III

Glory flows upstream....

Buenaventura X

Here Tapaculo number 16 just flew into the net and has to be taken out again. Foto: Claudia Hermes

Tapaculo II

Back in Buenaventura searching the dem El Oro Tapaculo. UNfortunately, my camera got stolen in Manabi by some jackasses. Therefore for now pictures from other peoples cameras. All pictures: Claudia Hermes or camera of Claudia Hermes

Attracting with playback

A completely banded Tapaculo

Here one can see how little the color of the Tapaculo is distinguishable from the background (=mud)

El Oro Tapaculo singing

Here a video from the El Oro Tapaculo and his long breath, shot in Buenaventura Reserve in Ecuador:

Buenaventura VI

Pictures from the search of the El Oro Tapaculo

            

as always fighting with the shrubs and the slopes

Here for a better impression of the slopes a picture shot parallel to the ground

like everything the slopes have some advantages aswell 

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 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:

Tapaculo I

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

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