unpocodelchoco
- Jan 18, 2013
- 5 min
What a week!
What a week we had…..it was raining and raining and raining in the past days and apparently the Banded Ground-Cuckoo doesn’t like rain...
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unpocodelchoco
- Jan 8, 2013
- 3 min
The Cuckoo roost and Cuckoo news
Happy 2013!! I am very sorry. This blog needs an urgent update. I have not realized that the last message was that we are not accepting...
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unpocodelchoco
- Nov 23, 2012
- 3 min
Wilito in love??
Oh it was all so easy with our Wilito for about three weeks. The bivouac of the ants was about 5o meters behind our house and Wilito...
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unpocodelchoco
- Oct 29, 2012
- 2 min
Banded Ground-Cuckoo Update
For all those who don’t have or like Facebook and can’t follow the news on our Banded Ground-Cuckoos, I’ll shortly summarize a bit of our...
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unpocodelchoco
- Oct 7, 2012
- 2 min
Crazy Cuckoo Show continues
Wow. The last two weeks have even been crazier… Due to the advertising by several bird guides who came to see the cuckoo, we had a lot...
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unpocodelchoco
- Sep 24, 2012
- 2 min
Banded Ground-Cuckoo attracts birders
Last week was absolutely crazy. After our sighting of the Cuckoo on the 13th I published a photo in the database of avesecuador. I was...
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unpocodelchoco
- Sep 13, 2012
- 2 min
Army Ants bring in two new bird species
This morning Wilo was cleaning around our outhouses when he noticed an army ants swarm outside. While actually observing the...
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unpocodelchoco
- Apr 24, 2012
- 1 min
New bird species in the reserve
This week Ilse, our dutch intern sighted a woodpecker species which we haven`t recorded before in the reserve. She saw a pair of...
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unpocodelchoco
- Feb 9, 2012
- 1 min
Northern Violaceous Trogon
Today I spotted a bird which is pretty rare to see at our elevation (1200 m), a beautiful Northern Violaceous Trogon (Trogon caligatus)....
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unpocodelchoco
- Dec 24, 2011
- 1 min
Christmas Bird Count 2011
Like every year we participated in the anual X-Mas Bird Count of the Audubon Society in Mindo again this year. But this year we went with...
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