Recently received photos - May 2018

This May Recent Photos Gallery ranges widely, from Costa Rica (with this inquisitive Collared Redstart from participant Tracy Bauder) to Bhutan and Namibia, Israel, Texas, Colorado, Cambodia, plus much more! Check out the tour page links above, but most of all enjoy this month's pics from our participants and guides!

Lesser Ground-Cuckoos do NOT like being out in the open, so this was amazing! Photo by participant Joelle Finley.

Long-tailed Manakin, one of the spiffiest of the Chiroxipia manakins, has the onomatopoeic local name "Toledo" for its song...but the cooperative display will blow your mind. Photo by participant Steve Kilpatrick.

Band-backed Wren is a local cousin of Cactus Wren in Costa Rica. Photo by participant Ken Harris.

Bay Wrens, like many of their kin, regularly duet, and they are a common part of Costa Rica's soundscape. Photo by participant Tracey Bauder.

Black-and-white Owl is one of the larger owls we can see in Costa Rica. Photo by participant Steve Kilpatrick.

Blue-crowned Manakin -- this tiny bird fairly disappears in the forest understory save for the opal crown. Photo by participant Joelle Finley.

Lesson's Motmot, one of the several new species resulting from the Blue-crowned Motmot split. Photo by participant Joelle Finley.

Chestnut-sided Warbler taking a bath -- this species is a common winterer in Costa Rica. Photo by participant Joelle Finley.

Another duet specialist -- the unusual Prong-billed Barbet. Photo by participant Tracey Bauder.

Resplendent Quetzal -- yes, we had some fabulous views of this amazing bird. Photo by participant Chris Kilpatrick.

A pair of Scarlet Macaws enjoyed the view from the entrance to their nest cavity. Photo by participant Ken Harris.

The diminutive Snowcap is one of the most distinctive and sought-after regional specialties in Central America. Photo by participant Steve Kilpatrick.

Plantings of Stachytarpheta jamaicensis (Jamaican Vervain) have made seeing hummers like White-crested Coquette so much easier in recent years! Photo by participant Chris Kilpatrick.

Now, wait...that's not a hummer! No, it's Beautiful Nuthatch, one of the prizes of our Bhutan tour, up next. Photo by participant Myles McNally.

Scoring White-bellied Heron was definitely cause for celebration for our Bhutan group, here with guide Richard Webster at center in the green shirt. Photo by guide Megan Edwards Crewe.

Just imagine trying to build a road here...but that's just what they did, amazingly, in Drabgme Chhu Gorge. Photo by guide Richard Webster.

Guide Richard Webster returned with this image from Gashari Forest -- the black-and-white really pulls out the texture of the Bhutanese mountainscape nicely.

Participant Rhys Harrison reports that this scope view appears to have raised Bhutan's Gross National Happiness a notch!

Kuri Chhu above the confluence with Drangme. Photo by guide Richard Webster.

It was a beautiful clear day for a view of Mount Everest from the plane. Photo by participant Myles McNally.

A cool nighttime view of the illuminated Paro Dzong, among the most famous of Bhutan's fortress monasteries. Photo by guide Richard Webster.

By contrast, a daytime view of Punakha Dzong, at the confluence of the Pho Chhu and Mo Chhu rivers. Photo by guide Megan Edwards Crewe.

Rufous-vented Tit by participant Myles McNally.

Participant Myles McNally captured the complex pattern of this Rufous-winged Fulvetta nicely.