birdwatching trip report - Ecuador - surfbirds.com
Participants: Adrian Harper, Shirley Harper,
Mark Harper
and Brian Smith.
Introduction
To organise this trip we initially made contact with Tropical Birding (
www.tropicalbirding.com
) via the internet and followed this up when we met with Cristina Cervantes and Iain Campbell at the British Birdwatching Fair 2001. We were expertly guided by Nick Athanas except whilst at Sacha Lodge when the resident guide Oscar Tapuy performed that task. Also accompanying Nick was Jose Illanes a new Tropical Birding guide who was previously employed at La Selva Lodge and was beginning to get to grips with the birds of the highlands. This arrangement was much to our benefit as he had a knack for spotting birds that we couldn't see until he scoped them for us. |
