After arriving at “Un poco del Chocó” I was very excited about getting to know the impressive biodiversity of this beautiful montane...

It’s already been a month since we’ve had our last x-mas bird count for the season. And as it has become a tradition, the last count is...

Soon after the Bird Counts in Chical and Mindo we got invited to participate in another Bird Count, this time in Mashpi. It did not take...

On the count day in Mindo, we all left before sunrise and drove to the starting points of our routes. Jens, Mees and Roel went early to...

After the recount in Chical we stayed for a night in Chilma Bajo and were able to go to a lek of the Red-ruffed Fruit Crow in the forest...

Each year around Christmas, communities throughout Ecuador and other parts of the world take part in Christmas Bird Counts run by the...

The bird count in our reserve this year was rather a rainy one. Too bad, given that we even got supported by the local authorities this...

The second X-mas Bird Count we participated in this year was the Mindo-Tandayapa Bird Count. As the compiler of the count data and member...

Here in Ecuador every year people give away small plastic bags of sweets to their friends and family for x-mas. And every year after...

The first annual x-mas bird count 2015 was realized this time in Chiles-Chical. Together with a few friends from the Mindo Naturalist...