What a heck of a fish, right!?! This impressive bundle of venomous spines and its intricate and beautifully designed entirety is the Indo-Pacific Lionfish and as peaceful as this beauty may seem, she’s a beast that’s hunting out our local, native fish species. The lionfish is an exotic species to the Caribbean, meaning it doesn’t…
Bocas Biodivertsity Ecotours & Workshops are led by @stacebird, professional tropical nature & bird guide. Bocas Biodiversity is my way of raise awareness about biodiversity loss (not just in the archipelago but worldwide) and we can only do our very best to treat these sensitive, stressed ecosystems gently without disturbing them. I would love to…
My plan toward growing young Bocatoreño EcoGuides is to dive into nature as we work toward helping these local youths gain confidence & a sense of value for their innate ability to sight wildlife while exploring and learning about our fragile ecosystems. The idea is to show them a new career path that’s sustainable, eco-friendly,…
While I’m from the Washington DC suburbs, I always remember being attracted to the birdlife and at the age of seven I joined thanks to my mother a birdwatching group where I learned to wield binoculars and capture the tiny, colorful spring migrants high in the trees. I eventually learned that these birds and their…
Bocas Biodiversity EcoTours & Eco-Guide Workshops Bocas Biodiversity. That’s what I’m here in Central America for and, if you know me from even way back, it makes sense that it was birds that were what brought me here. And it is the stunning biodiversity of our feathered kind in the tropics which was precisely, since young,…
A few days before last Saturday, I contacted bird guide friend Lukas asking if he’d bird the October Big Day with me around Isla Colón where we live. I knew my beloved Tranquilo Bay Eco-Adventure Lodge and bird guide legends Natalia & Ramon were covering the far end of the Archipelago so, all together, we’d…
