Don’t forget to send ’em if you got ’em. Thanks!
These are additional photos from reader Loretta Michaels trip to the tropics (part 1 is here). Her IDs and identifications (the binomials are from me) are indented, and you can enlarge the photos by clicking on them. Some of the IDs weren’t supplied, so readers are welcome to try their hand. From Loretta:
These were taken in Oct/Nov 2024 on the Upper Amazon in Peru, as part of a boat trip around the region. If you wanted to add this to my description, I use a Sony DSC-RX10 M4 (a fantastic camera that for some reason Sony has discontinued, much to the disappointment of fans.)
Osprey (Pandion haliaetus):
Amazon Kingfisher (Chloroceryle amazona):
Horned Screamer (Anhima cornuta):
Unidentified butterflies:
Juvenile caiman:
Neotropic cormorant (Nannopterum brasilianum) on left, not sure on right:
Blue-and-Yellow Macaw (Ara ararauna) :
Three more: The first one is a rare hybrid of a white-fronted capuchin and a red uakari (Cacajao sp.); when we visited a village, an old lady was caring for this juvenile, and said it had just shown up one day. Our guide was amazed, he’d never seen one. The other two are poison dart frogs:
Wow, beautiful!
[ looks at sloth ]
[ thinks : GET BACK TO WORK ]
These are spectacular photos, thank you. I love those itty bitty frogs – they seem impossible.
Amazing pictures at all scales! The Osprey pose is awesome, and I love the frogs. Who doesn’t love frogs?!
Fantastic photos! Here’s hoping that poor little monkey gets good care.
p.s. iNaturalist thinks your butterfly may be Melinaea marsaeus or M. satevis. They look like pretty good matches to me… but then of course you were in the hyperdiverse tropics, so who knows….?
I was looking into that, but I could not get that far.
Thanks for the wonderful photos!
Just how poisonous are these beautiful frogs? It looks like a thumb is touching them, so is skin contact not poisonous?
Beautiful bird pictures! The “Amazon Kingfisher” (“Chloroceryle amazona”) is really the much larger Ringed Kingfisher (Megaceryle torquata).
And the bird identified as Amazon Green Kingfisher is in fact a male Green-and-rufous Kingfisher (Chloroceryle inda). This species is considered “rare to uncommon, and difficult to detect” in my Peruvian bird guide, so congratulations on getting such a good shot of a tough-to-find bird. And many thanks for the other photos too. By the way, I think the bird on the right in the shot with the cormorant is just another Neotropic Cormorant. The bird on the left is a young one and the bird on the right is probably an adult.
Thank you ! These are incredible!
The sloth seems blissfully content while scratching his (or her) butt. The world is just fine.
Lovely photos, thank you.
Beautiful.
The frogs are so tiny and so colorful!