8 Dec 2011
Scarlet-shouldered Parrotlet (Touit huetii)
This clay lick (Saladero de Pericos) is located around 800 metres from the creek and is visited later in the day than many of the others. After 10 in the…
8 Dec 2011
Orange-cheeked Parrot (Pyrilia barrabandi)
The parrot licks are not necessarily visited by the same species throughout the year, and on this lick (Saladero de Pericos) the orange-cheeked parrot will be…
8 Dec 2011
Cobalt-winged Parakeet (Brotogeris cyanoptera)
This clay lick (Saladero de Pericos) is located around 800 metres from the creek and is visited later in the day than many of the others. After 10 in the…
8 Dec 2011
Blue-headed Parrot (Pionus menstruus)
The Blue-headed Parrots never went down from the trees to the Napo River parrot lick used by most other parrots - and that is the way of the licks. One day…
8 Dec 2011
Yellow-crowned Amazon (Amazona ochrocephala)
Dusky-headed parakeets (Aratinga weddellii) dominate this clay lick, but larger species also visit and are thus easy to distinguish. The largest here are the…
8 Dec 2011
Dusky-headed Parakeet (Aratinga weddellii)
They totally outnumbered the other parakeets and parrots at this lick, and this day. Only one other species is seen here - the larger Yellow-crowned Amazon. In…
8 Dec 2011
Napo River Clay lick
How do parrots, macaws, amazons and parakeets choose a particular location and clay? This one is most definitely accessible only to birds or humans with a boat…
8 Dec 2011
Mealy Amazon (Amazona farinosa)
The mealy amazon was not as common as the yellow-crowned amazon at this lick, and is at first easily confused with it. The size, it's one of the biggest…