Author: David Ascanio

Charming Guyana welcomed us at the Botanical Gardens with wonderful views of Blood-colored Woodpecker, Toco Toucans, a Cinnamon Attila singing at eye level, a pair of dull but interesting Northern Scrub-Flycatchers and Black-collared Hawks calling from a distant tree. The […]

When I started editing the photos of this amazing tour, I was in my flight back home. And, as I was enjoying the scenery from the plane window, I was wondering how to start an introductory paragraph highlighting the best […]

A colorful Andean Motmot catching land worms in the flooded gardens of the MG Hotel welcomed us to a week that would macth, in a magic way, the best birds of the Magdalena river valley and the Western Andes of […]

I find it difficult to summarize in words the mix of landscapes, skies painted in all kind of rich blue tones, inimaginable waterfalls reaching the sea, immensely huge glaciers, cliffs with thousand (or even tens of thousand) seabirds nesting, pale […]

It’s about 02:00AM in San José and we are listening the widespread and ubiquitous Clay-colored Robin singing from our hotel window. Yet, it was still too early to experience the real explosion of bird songs which usually happens after dawn. […]

The tour started in Rancho La Belén, an active cattle ranch where a population of the little-known Giant Kingbird remains. Along the drive to the ranch we were already stopping to enjoy views of Cuban Palm Crow, Cuban Crow and […]

An extract from our Field List: The first full day received us in Tahuayo, a tributary of the Amazon river. As soon as we were on the skiffs, the three groups were enjoying a wealth of birds, from antbirds to […]

An afternoon refreshing breeze welcomed us to the Camaguey airport. Although showing decades of deterioration, this city could not hide its glorious past. As we drove by its narrow roads, we enjoyed the amazing tiles, beautiful iron work and wonderful […]

Bogotá at 04.00AM was cold and dark. But we had to meet that early to take the morning flight to Yopal, the capital city of the Colombian Llanos. Soon after our arrival, we took the 4-wheel drive vehicles and started […]

The Panama Canal welcomed us with a chorus of howler monkeys roaring in the distance, toucans either yelping or croaking, parakeets screeching and a pair of motmots giving their typical hoop, hoop! As the day gained light, we added images […]