The June 2018 Amazonia Expedition that I co-led with my young protégé and rising star in the ornithological world, Micah Riegner, was another success after a slightly different expedition the previous year. Eleven gung-ho participants joined us on the riverboat Dorinha  on a naturalist’s dream trip, with incredible diversity of birds, primates, fishes, butterflies, and tropical plants.  We saw dolphins (there are two species here) nearly every day, otters, many monkeys, sloths, and great diversity of parrots, raptors, hummingbirds, trogons, kingfishers, toucans, woodpeckers, woodcreepers, antbirds, flycatchers, tanagers, and a lot more.  We can now count ourselves as among the few people who have ever seen a Black-tailed Hairy Dwarf Porcupine (yes, that’s a real animal!) in the wild. This is the best remaining tropical rainforest in the world, and it is something you need to see to believe.

Amazonia Wild!