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Un poco del Chocó

Las Tolas via Ayapi s/n

Gualea-Pichincha

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Wildlife highway

October 22, 2017

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Isabel R. and Nicole

We made a little compilation of the different birds and mammals that were recorded on our camera traps near the wildlife track. It's quite fascinating to know that all those animals roam around in the forest at night and day, just 50 meters away from the student house. Unfortunately one has to be very patient and quiet to see mammals in the reserve, but every now and then encounters like that also happen.

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Short visit

September 23, 2015

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Nicole

Last week we had a short visit of a Banded Ground-cuckoo to one of our woodquail feeding sites. As we are monitoring the activity of the animals visiting the feeder we had placed a camera trap at the feeder. Our trap showed us that the Rufous-fronted Woodquails are still frequent visitors of the feeding spot. Other animals like agoutis, opossums and tayras also stopped by for a bite. 
To our surpri...

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UPDC Bird Count

January 11, 2015

The New Year in the reserve started with the “Un poco del Chocó-Bird Count” as the reserve forms part of the Los Bancos-Milpe count circle. Compared to the count in Mindo, our count circle is pretty young: the count took place this year for the third time. For this reason we had invited some friends from Mindo and Cosanga on the first weekend in the new year. The Mindo-Crew arrived late on Friday afternoon....

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Dark-backed Wood-Quails on Youtube

October 31, 2013

We just launched the Un poco del Chocó-Youtube channel. From now on we’ll give you updates also in moving pictures from time to time here :-) Christian Stern, an old friend of Nicole is with us for a while and he just discovered his love for close up pictures of the fauna in the reserve. Enjoy.

Besides the all mighty Banded Ground-Cuckoo there are other rare birds in the Un poco del Chocó reserve. Since a few...

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March 6, 2019

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January 4, 2019

How to catch a hummingbird!

March 16, 2018

Wildlife highway

October 22, 2017

A banded Banded Ground-Cuckoo

October 12, 2017

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