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...

unpocodelchoco
Jan 18, 20135 min read
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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...

unpocodelchoco
Jan 8, 20133 min read
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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...

unpocodelchoco
Nov 23, 20123 min read
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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...

unpocodelchoco
Oct 29, 20122 min read
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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...

unpocodelchoco
Oct 7, 20122 min read
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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...

unpocodelchoco
Sep 24, 20122 min read
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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...

unpocodelchoco
Sep 13, 20122 min read
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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...

unpocodelchoco
Apr 24, 20121 min read
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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)....

unpocodelchoco
Feb 9, 20121 min read
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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...

unpocodelchoco
Dec 24, 20111 min read
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