Falconry European kestrel couldn’t read the sign and was hopelessly tangled in barb wire in Qatar. With the help of three Bangleadeshi farm workers it was freed to return home or return to the wild. Seemed good health when it flew away. #birds #birding #qatar #falconry #gooddeads

Guianan Cockof-the-Rock from Mitu, Colombia. Its bright colors made it easy to spot but the dense foliage made it very tough to photograph. #birds #birding #mitu #colombia

Scarlet macaw making a visit to my house. I think this is the first time I have had one perch so closely. The elevation is a little too high for them normally. #birds #birding #scarletmacaw #costarica

Wire-tailed manakin from Inirida, Colombia. In a dense, dark forest, its colors really stand out. #birds #birding #inirida #colombia #manakin

Spotted puffbird from Caño Cheo, Inírida, Colombia. Personally, I love puffbirds because of their laid-back demeanor. #birds #birding #inirida #colombia

Male white-flanked antwren from Cano Cheo, Inirida, Colombia. Local ornithologists have recently started creating feeding stations for a variety of species in indigenous communities as a way to attract tourist dollars to underserved communities. #birds #birding #inirida

Magpie tanager enjoying a bit of banana in Cundimarca, Colombia. #birds #birding #tanagers #colombia

Black-streaked puffbird from Cundimarca, Colombia. Very happy with the photo. #birding #birds #puffbird #colombia #andes

Spangled Coquette from Señor Avila Darwin’s property aptly named Coquette Heaven in Zamora Chinchipe, Ecuador. #birds #birding #hummingbirds #ecuador

Black-crested tit-tyrant from Loja, Ecuador. Once a reliable location to find this species, this spot was recently cleared for a fruit orchard. #birds #birding #ecuador

Common potoo profile from near my farm in southwest Costa Rica. #birds #birding #costarica #potoo

Crimson-collard tanager from Alajuela, Costa Rica. #birds #birding #costarica

Rufous-tailed jacamar from Dagua, Colombia. It had a nest in cut bank on the side of the trail and guarded it closely as we hiked past. #birds #birding #jacamar #colombia

Yellow-billed oxpecker on a forest buffalo, Bandia Reserve, Senegal. #birds #birding #ox #senegal

Gray-breasted mountain-toucan from Manizales, Colombia.

Rufous-tailed jacamar from San Buenaventura, Colombia in May 2025. #birds #birding #colombia

Hooded vulture from the Atlantic coast of The Gambia. Looking for dead fish.

Smooth-billed from near the Bigal River Ecological Research Station in northeastern Ecuador. Always one of my favorite birds to photograph. #birds #birding #bigal #Ecuador

Random rooster in Ecuador giving me the stink eye.

Andean motmot from the occidental Andes in Colombia. Lesson’s motmot is not an easy bird to photograph in Central America but this one is common and easy to find. #birds #birding #colombia #motmot #andes

Patania silicalis, one of the lantern flies of eastern Ecuador. Not a moth but it is attracted to moth light. Absolutely odd and adorable at the same time. #team moth #moths #lanternfly #fulgoridae #ecuador

Male collared trogon from the eastern slope of the Andes in Ecuador. #birds #birding #ecuador #andes

Draconia peripheta. Flew in the window last night while I was eating. Very cool and apparently very rare. #teammoth #costarica #moth #moths

A rare orange-throated tanager from the southeastern Ecuador/northeastern Peru border in the Amazonian foothills. It is restricted to a very limited area and was a target bird for my trip. #birds #birding #ecuador #amazon #endangeredspecies

Harpy eagle from the Darien in Panama. It was a privilege to see one in the wild. #birds #birding #panama #harpyeagle #eagles

A striolated manakin from Nuevo Paraiso in the Ecuadorian Amazon. Maybe not the best framed photo due to its preference for dense forest, but it is such a lovely bird. #birding #birds #ecuador #amazon

Vermillion tanager, an uncommon species restricted to a limited elevational range on the east side of the Andes. I was fortunate to have a flock of three visit me. #birds #birding #tanagers #ecuador

A lovely little ornate flycatcher from the Andean foothills east of Guayaquil, Ecuador. #birds #birding #ecuador #flycatchers

Pacific flatbill, from the Chocó region of Colombia, gathering nesting materials. #birds #birding #colombia

Scarlet-fronted parakeets from the Santa Marta Mountains of northeast Colombia. #birds #birding #santamarta #colombia

One of the what-seems-like hundreds of Eois moths from the tropics that can’t be readily identified. Maybe it’s been named and I don’t have the resource, or maybe it’s undescribed. It is from Costa Rica. #teammoth

Yellow-tufted woodpecker staring down the camera in Amazonian Ecuador. #birds #birding #ecuador #amazon

Capped heron from the Napo River basin in eastern Ecuador. Don’t mind the grass. #birds #birding #ecuador

A prehistoric-looking Hoatzin, Opisthocomus hoazin, from the Amazon rainforest on the Ecuador/Peru border. #birds #birding #amazon #ecuador

Golden-bellied flycatcher from Ecuador. #birds #birding #ecuador

Fiery-throated fruiteater from the Ecuadorian Amazon. Very bright background but I was able to keep it toned down and get a nice photo. #birds #birding #ecuador #amazon

Brown violetear being all about guarding his territory. Near Cali, Colombia. #birds #birding #hummingbirds #colombia

Stayed in a remote research station in Bigal, Ecuador. Found a cozy little common lancehead, Bothrops attrox, underneath the privy! #snake #snakes #terciopelo #ecuador #adventure

Ocellated tapaculo from the Andes near Quito, Ecuador. At the time, I did not realize what a very difficult bird this was to photo. #birds #birding #ecuador

Gilded barbet from the Ecuadorian Amazon. #birds #birding #ecuador #amazon

A limpkin paying much attention to a fish and absolutely no attention to me. Colombia. #birds #birding #limpkin #colombia

Rufous-bellied euphonia munching on orange Anthurium berries in the canopy of a giant ceiba tree in the Ecuadorian Amazon. #birds #birding #ecuador #amazon

African stonechat from near Dakkar, Senegal. #birds #birding #senegal

Oriole warbler calling near Janjanbureh, along the Gambia River in The Gambia. #birds #birding #gambua

Guinea baboon from Senegal enjoying a fresh mango and giving me the side eye. #primates #baboon #primate #senegal #sideye

White-crested helmet-shrike from eastern Senegal. #birds #birding #senegal

The Costa Rican color of the night was green. #teammoth #moths #costarica

Smooth-billed ani from near Cali, Colombia, earlier this year. #birds #birding #cali #colombia

More mothing in Costa Rica. None have common names so scientific names are included in the ALT text. #teammoth #costarica

More interesting moths from a night of mothing in Costa Rica. IDs are in the ALT text. #teammoth #moths #costarica