Guanay Cormorant (Phalacrocorax bougainvilliorum)

Guanay Cormorant (Phalacrocorax bougainvilliorum)

Guanay cormorant (Phalacrocorax bougainvilliorum) has become a more uncommon species, and even here around havens like the Ballestas Islands in Peru I saw only…


Red-legged Cormorant (Poikilocarbo gaimardi)

Red-legged Cormorant (Poikilocarbo gaimardi)

Red-legged cormorant (Poikilocarbo gaimardi) is the second of the regional species of cormorant I encountered, also this one becoming more and more rare - just…


Neotropic Cormorant (Phalacrocorax brasilianus)

Neotropic Cormorant (Phalacrocorax brasilianus)

The oxbow lake at the Amazon Reaseach and Conservation Center holds enough fish to support ravenous giant otters, caimans, anhingas and neotropical……


Leonia crassa

Leonia crassa

Leonia crassa is a very peculiar tree - full of fruits growing from the trunk, not the tip of the branches. I only encountered this tree, which stands in the…


ARCC plant 02

ARCC plant 02

Fruit on a vine in the gloom of the forest floor in the forest of the Amazon Research and Conservation Center. Please help me identify it - leave a comment……