Even with the large absentee of Giant Antpitta looming from our morning at Paz de las Aves, things were still pretty sweet when the mere whiff of a banana brought frugivorous birds raining down on their incredible feeders. The hungry mob included this technicolor Toucan Barbet, a Choco endemic (only occurs in that region of NW Ecuador and W Colombia) from a small family that it shares with only the significantly less colorful Prong-billed Barbet of Central America. They are so colorful I like to call them the clown of the Andes. No one else has caught on yet!
More feeders birds to come...
1 comment:
They look more like one of those scary clowns from a horror movie I watched as a kid....I'm still not over it.
Post a Comment