Jordan, a scientist from the States, is holding an endangered bird called the Umbrella Bird that him and his crew caught in nets placed high up in the forest canopy. His research project is partly sponsored by Disney.
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Don Jorge holding the endangered bird
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A close up of the umbrella bird
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A different type of bird eating our bananas
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Tucan
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A tucan hanging out on our bananas
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Carlos holding a rare bird called the oil bird. It is from the amazon region of Ecuador (completely opposite side of Ecuador from Bilsa), so finding it in Bilsa was very unlikely. (Jordan and his research team caught it in the high canopy nets)
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The oil bird's wing span
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Closer zoom of the rare oil bird
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A more rare type of tucan than the ones that hang around the house eating our bananas
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A close up of the same tucan
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Carlos holding a dead falcon that we found in Dogola
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another picture of the dead bird
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Close up of the oil bird
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A tucan sitting on one of our hanging banana bunches
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close up picture of a tucan
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I don't remember what type of bird this is
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A zoomed in picture of some type of special bird
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Not sure what kind of bird this is, but it's really neat
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Tucans eating our bananas
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This bird picture was taken with Luis, a scientist from Quito who was researching birds of Bilsa. On this day Kate and I joined Luis and helped him collect data.
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another bird
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another bird
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Luis taking a bird out of a net. The nets were so shear that they were difficult for volunteers and workers to see.
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Luis taking a bird out of a net
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Kate taking a picture of Luis holding a bird that we caught
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A neat looking bird.
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Another blury bird pic (my camera had trouble focusing)
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Me holding a little bird
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A blury picture of a neat looking bird
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Another bird that we caught
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More unique birds of Bilsa
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A better picture of one of the birds from the previous picture
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Carlos holding a tucan
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A funny/cute looking bird
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This little bird is really cool!
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another cute little bird
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