The middy heat was just beginning to press down after a cloudy morning when we reached the edge of a new-established outskirts, in the Gunma Ecological Park near Belém. The small village here might have its charms, but the real draw for birders is far more delicate: the Dot-eared Coquette (Lophornis gouldii). I had been… Continue reading Dot-eared Coquette in Gunma Ecological Park