Mindo Manakins Video

Here is the video I put together of the manakins in Mindo! I added it to my original post as well.

The video is all of the same branch, but there were at least four or five males in the same 10m radius calling from their own branches, often on the same tree.

Birding in Ecuador: Trogons, Toucans, and Tanagers!

Until I catch up on my school-posts, I won’t be writing much about Mindo. I do, however, have videos and photos that I took on Mari’s camera, so check them out! The round glare you often see is the lens of the camera reflecting against the scope that provided most of the zoom to capture the images—I discovered the annoying way how difficult it is to perfectly align the two device’s lenses. Thus, some of my footage has required heavy splicing to edit out the seconds spent trying to focus the scope (which in addition had a bad leg) in one hand while keeping the lenses in line with the other hand. Unfortunately, the most evasive bird, the Golden-winged Manakin, was the subject of the most troublesome equipment management.


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