Aspilia leucoglossa

Aspilia leucoglossa

I spent very little time on the Cerrado or grassland sections of the Noel Kempff Mercado National Park, but on my way back to the village of Florida I stopped…


Aspilia leucoglossa

Aspilia leucoglossa

I spent very little time on the Cerrado or grassland sections of the Noel Kempff Mercado National Park, but on my way back to the village of Florida I stopped…


Noel Kempff Mercado National Park plant 13 (Heliantheae)

Noel Kempff Mercado National Park plant 13 (Heliantheae)

I observed new (to me at least) and different species of plants wherever I looked, and even though I left the the plateau the very same trail walked up, I saw…


Noel Kempff Mercado National Park plant 13 (Heliantheae)

Noel Kempff Mercado National Park plant 13 (Heliantheae)

I observed new (to me at least) and different species of plants wherever I looked, and even though I left the the plateau the very same trail walked up, I saw…


Noel Kempff Mercado National Park plant 12 (Heliantheae)

Noel Kempff Mercado National Park plant 12 (Heliantheae)

I observed new (to me at least) and different species of plants wherever I looked, and even though I left the the plateau the very same trail walked up, I saw…


Noel Kempff Mercado National Park plant 12 (Heliantheae)

Noel Kempff Mercado National Park plant 12 (Heliantheae)

I observed new (to me at least) and different species of plants wherever I looked, and even though I left the the plateau the very same trail walked up, I saw…


Ichthyothere terminalis

Ichthyothere terminalis

As I visited at the end of the dry season, the plateau was lush and green. Many of the plants species were in full bloom. Huanchaca Plateau is also called…


Ichthyothere terminalis

Ichthyothere terminalis

As I visited at the end of the dry season, the plateau was lush and green. Many of the plants species were in full bloom, like this ichthyothere terminalis.…


Black Skimmer (Rynchops niger)

Black Skimmer (Rynchops niger)

My only sighting of black skimmer (Rynchops niger) was along the Tuichi River, so I never saw it hunting. Its peculiar beak is used as a kind of fishing rod,…


Black-capped capuchin (Cebus apella)

Black-capped capuchin (Cebus apella)

I haven't been able to find any resource describing which of these two distinctly different facial patterns are male and female, but I assume the first one is…