Kapawi Eco Lodge
Saturday, September 27th, 2008We returned yesterday from our 5 day jungle adventure at the Kapawi Eco Lodge. Although our fishing trip was relatively unsuccessful (well, Fred caught two 3″ puffer fish), the rest of us just lost our meat bait to the amazon river fish of the lagoon (includes sardines, pirahna, and catfish).
I have discovered a true pleasure in my renewed hobby of bird watching. Although I grew up identifying birds (their habitat, sounds, nests, and eggs), I thoroughly enjoyed spotting them in the rainforest and trying to identify them in bird encyclopedias afterwards. With the help of our very knowledgeable guides, Antonio (Achur guide) and Juan Carlos (naturalist guide) here is a list of the more exotic birds identified over the five days:
- Crimson-crested Woodpecker
- White-throated Toucan
- a flock of Blue & Yellow Macaws
- a nest in a dead tree of Dusky-headed Parakeets
- Violaceious Jay
- Yellow-rumped Cacique (there was a tree full of these yellow and black birds building their nests right behind our cabin)
- Blue-throated Piping-Guan
- Ringed Kingfisher
- Hoatzin (a.k.a. Stinky Turkeys)
- Greater Ani
- Red-capped Cardinal
- Greater Yellow-headed Vulture
- Lesser Kiskadee
- Greater Kiskadee
- Blue-gray Tanager
- Magpie Tanager
- Long-tailed Hermit (from the hummingbird family)
- Common Potoo (camouflage into the tree trunks)
- Great Tinamou
- Purple-throated Fruitcrow
- Smooth-billed Ani (from the cuckoo family)
- White-eared Jacamar
- Russet-backed Oropendola (a very loud, explosive, bubbly sound)
- Orange-back Trupal
- Long-billed Woodcreeper (rare)
- Neo-tropical Cormorant
- Great Egret
- Limpkin
- Chestnut-fronted Macaw (nesting in a tree)
- Horned Screamer (almost sounds like a howler monkey)
- Little Blue Heron (extremely rare)
- White-winged Swallow
- White-banded Swallow
- Social Flycatcher
- Yellow Caracara
- Cocoy Heron
Other memorable moments in the rain forest included:
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