Pete Oxford / Dried mud flow caused by volcanic eruption, Cotopaxi Volcano, Cotopaxi National Park, Andes, Ecuador

Pete Oxford / Cloud forest canopy, Andes, Ecuador

Pete Oxford / Moth caterpillar mimics bird dropping, Mindo Cloud Forest, Andes, Ecuador

Murray Cooper / Noble Snipe (Gallinago nobilis) day old chick, Andes, Ecuador

Murray Cooper / Noble Snipe (Gallinago nobilis) day old chick, Andes, Ecuador

Michael & Patricia Fogden / Sarcopera (Sarcopera sp) inflorescence with buds and nectar-secreting cups in cloud forest, Tandayapa Valley, western slope of Andes, Ecuador

Michael & Patricia Fogden / Canna (Canna sp) ripe and unripe seed pods in cloud forest, Tandayapa Valley, western slope of Andes, Ecuador

Michael & Patricia Fogden / Cloud forest, Tandayapa Valley, western slope of Andes, Ecuador

Michael & Patricia Fogden / Valley and mountains in Verdecocha Ecological Reserve, western slope of Andes, Ecuador

Michael & Patricia Fogden / Bromeliad (Bromeliaceae) flowering in cloud forest, Tandayapa Valley, western slope of Andes, Ecuador

James Christensen / Looper Moth (Geometridae) caterpillar, Mindo, western slope of Andes, Ecuador

James Christensen / Osborne's Lancehead (Bothrops osbornei) juvenile, western slope of Andes, Ecuador