America Ecuador Experiments Species 
10,000 Birds
FEBRUARY 5, 2022
More than 20 species are recognized, many look similar and to throw a bit more challenging flavored sauce into the Megascops mix, there might be a few more species awaiting description. One of the more recently, officially recognized screech-owl species is the Choco Screech-Owl.
10,000 Birds
MARCH 21, 2015
These and several other species might end up being armchair ticks if and when we take a closer look at their evolutionary history. Taxa that could end up being split into one species occurring north of the Isthmus of Tehuantepec, and one south of the isthmus. (2). Two subspecies of the same species that differ within Costa Rica. (4).
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10,000 Birds
AUGUST 20, 2014
What happens when you visit one of the best birdwatching sites in the region with the highest number of endemic bird species in the Americas in the world’s birdiest country? We spied 11 tanager species including the highly coveted Black-and-gold Tanager. Your mind gets blown. But the birds we did see were stellar!
10,000 Birds
NOVEMBER 28, 2015
This spectacular, turkey-like bird roams the floor of tropical forests from eastern Mexico south to northwestern Ecuador. In most countries, long, sweaty, expedition birding is required to see the only curassow species in Middle America. It also ranges widely from Mexico south to western Ecuador. Ain’t I great?
10,000 Birds
MAY 4, 2017
In 2009, I traveled from New York City to the tropical rainforest of Ecuador. An enlarged version was published in 1997, with color photographs and more coverage of South America. The text still focuses on Central and South America, though the Caribbean is also considered to be part of the Neotropics.
10,000 Birds
AUGUST 20, 2015
This map shows the distribution of the World’s bird species, based on overlying the breeding and wintering ranges of all known species. I used to live in Botswana, where there are about 450 bird species in an area a few dozen miles from the capital; then somewhat naively moved back to Serbia with mere 250 species around the capital.
10,000 Birds
AUGUST 3, 2019
It would be uber cool to lay eyes on a rare lifer, on species that only seem to live on the pages of a field guide but isn’t that somewhat discriminatory? And why spend time only looking for one or two species when those hours could be used to put binos focused on a few dozen? Aren’t all birds worth watching?
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