First Birding Workshop in La Esperanza

I’m walking through the darkness toward the bottom of a valley covered with tropical montane forest, I have traveled over 700 miles to find one of the most mysterious birds in the world and I realize that I have left my flashlight at home, fortunately the light of the moon allows me to see everything [...]

Shorebirds Workshop in Lima

Yesterday I attended an excellent workshop on identification of shorebirds organized by the Peruvian NGO CORBIDI with support from the Cornell Lab of Ornithology, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, BirdLife International and the Universidad Científica del Sur. This is one of three workshops that has been organized along the Peruvian coast to train volunteers for [...]