At Sunrise

Sigma 100-400 OS C @100mm, f6.3, handheld; Nikon D600 Amazon

Cloud Forset IV

Sigma 100-400 OS C @100mm, f5, morning sun; Nikon D600 higher elevation slopes (2600 m), backlit with a speedlight/diffuser, Heliconia burleana F11/Full Screen key where appl.

Cloud Forest III

Sigma 100-400 OS C @100mm, f7.1; Nikon D600 Noon, light breaking through the clouds (the little dot in the distance is a bird of prey)

Tamarin

Nikkor 200-500 VR/TC 14 III @600mm, f8, ISO 1250; Nikon D750 crop (APS-H), Amazon The black-mantled tamarins feed on anything they can find in the forest from insects, fruits, nectar to seeds. They enjoy https://tinyurl.com/theTreeSap given a chance. The large canines are the reason why they can’t gouge their own holes into the bark with their lower teeth like the marmosets do (it involves up and down movement).

Crown II

Milvus 35/1.4 @f4, evening light, handheld; Nikon D600 Gigantic trees represent forests in forest in miniature. Amazon (F11/Full Screen WA)

Fluvial Forest VI

Sigma 50/1.4 A @f6.3, early morning, handheld; Nikon D600 Upper reaches Amazon

Morning Moon

Milvus 35/1.4 @f8; Nikon D600 A lost world it can seem; an endless network of channels and rivers is home to a myriad of creatures Amazon

Hawk ; In the Dark

Nikkor 200-500 VR/TC 14 III @600mm, f8, high ISO image (4000), Nikon D750 Amazon

Cloud Forest II

Sigma 100-400 OS C @100mm, f5; Nikon D600 diffuse sunlight plus speedlight Lower cloud forest; some aroid; it looks like one of many species of Spathiphyllum, though there are anthurium features as well.

Slate-coloured Hawk

Nikkor 200-500 VR/TC 14 III @390mm, f8, ISO 900; Nikon D750 Amazon

Forest III

Milvus 35/1.4 @f9, (1/4s); Nikon D600 Blue Morpho in flight (buterfly), sg. Morpho, probably deidamia or helenor sp., up to 20 cm wingspan Amazon

Monk Saki

Nikkor 200-500 VR/TC 14 III @700mm, f8, ISO 320; Nikon D750 morning, low cloud, crop (a little > APS-H) Monogamous pairs stay for life together, a fructivore with a particular interest in seeds (it has got strong jaws), honey, given a chance it’s catching small vertebrates including bats or birds.

Fluvial Forest V

Milvus 35/1.4 @f8, hand-held, ISO 140; Nikon D600 First rays touch trees in the endless network of the floodplains Amazon

Fluvial Forest IV

Sgma 50/1.4 A @f7.1, ND gradual filter; hand-held, Nikon D600 morning, contre-jour, diffuse side sunlight, Amazon

The Reventador

Sigma 100-400 OS C @310mm, f6.3; Nikon D600 view over the eastern Andes, late morning

Choco Toucan

Nikkor 200-500 VR/TC 14 III @500mm, f8, ISO 250 Nikon D750 (Ramphastos brevis), back-lit; courtship display, the female nearby, Choco

Aracari

Nikkor 200-500 VR/TC 14 III @280mm, f8, ISO 3200 Nikon D750 Pale-mandibled Aracari; it may seem an easy shot but 2 seconds earlier the bird was in flight, one second before this exposure it continued that movement up the branch ("got" both the shots) and right now is climbing. I was lucky for the timing as he must have stopped for a fraction of a second and I got just one shot – the camera is on 1/500s shutter speed, and I am very close (relatively faster movement). Choco

Mist

Sigma 100-400 OS C @270mm, f8; Nikon D600 morning mist clears over the cloud forest

Green-crowned Brilliant

Nikkor 200-500 VR/TC 14 III @700mm, f8, ISO 720 Nikon D750 Green-crowned brilliant ad ult male

Dusk

Sigma 50/1.4 A @f3.5, sunset glow; Nikon D600 fluvial forest, Amazon

Starfrontlet

Sigma 100-400 OS C @400mm, f6.3, ISO 1100 Nikon D750 female buff-winged starfrontlet, cloud forest

Chestnut-mandibled Toucan

Nikkor 200-500 VR/TC 14 III @700mm, f8, ISO 720 Nikon D750 crop (APS-H), a few metres from the previous shot spot

Philodendron

Milvus 35/1.4 @f1.4; Nikon D600 recently described philodendron fibrosum (Sodiro ex Croat, 2010) chestnut-mandibled toucan appeared during this shoot; the only time we saw this toucan Choco/lower cloud forest

Cotopaxi

Sigma 100-400 OS C @185mm, f6.3; Nikon D600