Showing posts with label Asa Wright Nature Centre. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Asa Wright Nature Centre. Show all posts

Tree Snag Birds

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Hey, what's that up there on the end of the snag? Can you see it? Let's look more closely... It's a bird—a common potoo, to be s...

White-bearded Manakins

thumbnail Here, at last, is the white-bearded manakin video I promised to upload last week. I took these clips in late July on the main forest trail a...

Asa Wright: Beyond the Verandah

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The verandah view at Asa Wright in Trinidad. It's really hard to leave the incredible setting of the Asa Wright Nature Centre verandah, ...

Digiscoping at Asa Wright

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Crested oropendola. I've heard several well-traveled friends say that Asa Wright Nature Centre in Trinidad is an excellent destination ...

For Whom the Bellbird Tolls

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Bearded bellbird. Not very far down the jungle trail from the main building of the Asa Wright Nature Centre, there's a sign that says Be...

(Not So) Great Kiskadee

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This series of images of a great kiskadee (coughing up a ball of what I assume are insect exoskeleton bits), was taken from the verandah of ...

Asa Wright: Toast For Breakfast

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Relaxed tropical birding from the Asa Wright verandah. As dawn arrives in the Arima Valley of Trinidad, the birds are the first ones to stir...

The Birthday Chimp Self-Actualizes

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Julie Zickefoose with a hatchling leatherback turtle Today, July 24, is Julie Zickefoose's birthday. Last night, in a full-on assault o...

Ooh, I Hear Lapwings in the Rain

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Neil Sedaka never sang a song about hearing lapwings in the rain, but he should have. I heard this southern lapwing yesterday afternoon—in t...

A Jacobin in Trinidad

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White-necked jacobin, male. We spent the day birding around the Asa Wright Nature Centre in Trinidad. One of the very first birds seen well...

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