thru a misty dawn morning, thru a net of vines, mosses, & tree branches, what to our wondering eye did appear but the mysterious Crested Guan!!!

a bit sneaky & hard to photograph considering the size of this birb!

#Bird #Birding #Guans #BirdsOfMastodon #Wildlife #Photograph #BIrdPhotography #Forest #Neotropics

"tremble when i appear before u, for i am the descendant of the great tyrant-king dinosaurs!"

#Bird #Birding #Cuckoo #Ani #Neotropics #Cute #Funny #Photograph #BirdPhotography #BirdsOfMastodon

the "joys" of tropical forest photography -- here we have tiny subject way overhead picking in the trees (pygmy marmoset raiding a bee hive) in the mid afternoon with equatorial sunlight raining down through the gaps...

#TongueOut #TongueOutTuesday #ThickTrunk #Wildlife #Neotropics #Primates #Nature #Photograph #Photography

the less owl spoke
the more owl heard
the more folks said
what a wise old bird!!! 🀣

"actually i was just thinking about how all y'all have interrupted the beauty of the snooze" -- wise old owl

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"Some say it's a Hair Don't but it's a Hair DO" -- cute hoatzin

#bird #birding #Hoatzin #Rare #BirdPhotography #BIrdsOfMastodon #Nature #Neotropics #Biodiversity