A female Orange-bellied Euphonia pausing on a rain-soaked branch in the Mashpi cloud forest.
Mashpi Reserve, Ecuador
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A Black-cheeked Woodpecker pausing briefly while working its way up the trunk, searching the bark for insects.
Mashpi Reserve, Ecuador
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The Moss-backed Tanager made quick work of this insect.
One bite… and the rest was already falling away.
Mashpi Reserve, Ecuador
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The Crimson-rumped Toucanet may blend into the canopy, but that bill - and the formidable look in its eye - are anything but subtle.
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Golden-naped Tanager
Mashpi Reserve, Ecuador
Rain has a way of softening everything - except the color.
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Velvet-purple Coronet
Mashpi Reserve, Ecuador
Black at first glance.
Until the light finds it.
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The moss-backed tanager
is one of the most abundant birds in Mashpi - and somehow never ordinary.
Rainforest light, layered greens, and a bird that carries its own palette.
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Feathers layered like fine fabric —
nature’s elegant quilt of color and texture.
Collared Trogon in Mashpi.
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Elegant Crest & Piercing Gaze: Crowned Heroin Magic" #BirdPhotography #WildlifePhotography #RainforestBirds #ExoticBirds #BirdsOfNewGuinea #NatureLovers #AvianBeauty #WildlifeOnearth #CrestedBirds #TropicalBirds #BeautifulBirds #BirdWatching #NatureIsArt #AnimalKingdom #FeatheredFriends
Amazing rainforest birds from Sierra Madre mountain range unique to the Greater Luzon Endemic Bird Area: Flaming Sunbird, White-browed Shama and Blue-headed Fantail. #endemictoPhilippines
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I haven't much felt like #painting for some weeks, but the colours & shapes of the rainforest #birds have been flying around my head since we returned from South America. At last, I have begun to set them down on paper.
#workinprogress
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Lots of northern hemisphere ornithologists/birders on BlueSky bless em but nada from the neotropical gang.
Where are all the rainforest peeps hanging out? Let’s get this party started!
Painting; Regional endemics of the Costa Rican highlands
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