Date

Wednesday, March 22, 2006

Speaker

Location

Parking:
On site and free.

Time

Cost

Title

Birding Odyssey of Ecuador

Topics

Roy Poucher will transport you on a birding odyssey from the high Andes of Ecuador (20,000'+) down to the steamy lowland (500') jungles of the Amazon. These extremes in elevation, being at the equator (for year-round maximum sunlight), make Ecuador a unique-in-the-world adventure of unsurpassed bio-diversity.

You will feel like you are sitting in a dugout canoe with Roy as he searches for birds while paddling on Amazon rainforest streams with native Indian guides. The photographs of the spectacular birds in a fireworks display of different colors and shapes will amaze you. Walking next to Roy on the high steep slopes of Yanacocha you will see a mind-boggling variety of hummingbirds. These are just a few of the special treats that Roy has in store for you on this journey.

About the Speaker

Roy Poucher has been a Sea and Sage Audubon trip leader and field trip assistant in their introductory birding classes for 14 years. He has led repeated multi-day trips to the Eastern Sierra, Santa Barbara, Yosemite, Arizona and Texas. His birding Big Years (1996 in CA; 1998 in the ABA Area) were major accomplishments (472 and 677 species respectively). In 2003 he designed and led spring warbler trips to the Upper Texas Coast and to the Great Lakes. In 2005 he did the same for shorebird trips to Texas (April) and the East Coast (August). His bird tour company, Bird Odysseys, has recently taken groups to Costa Rica, Ecuador and the Galapagos Islands. Trips to Africa and Costa Rica are in the planning stage.