Michael & Patricia Fogden / White-necked Jacobin (Florisuga mellivora) hummingbird male feeding on nectar of Fairy Duster (Calliandra sp) flower in cloud forest, Tandayapa Valley, western slope of Andes, Ecuador

Pete Oxford / Cloud Forest Tree Frog (Hyla pellucens) sitting on edge of leaf, Choco Rainforest, northwest Ecuador

Pete Oxford / Chachi Tree Frog (Hyla picturata), Choco Rainforest, threatened habitat, northwestern Ecuador

Michael & Patricia Fogden / Green-fronted Lancebill (Doryfera ludovicae) hummingbird feeding on nectar of Heath (Psammisia aberrans) flower in cloud forest, Tandayapa Valley, western slope of Andes, Ecuador

Michael & Patricia Fogden / Purple-bibbed Whitetip (Urosticte benjamini) hummingbird male feeding on nectar of Cinchona (Cinchona sp) flower in cloud forest, Tandayapa Valley, western slope of Andes, Ecuador

Michael & Patricia Fogden / Purple-bibbed Whitetip (Urosticte benjamini) hummingbird male feeding on nectar of Cinchona (Cinchona sp) flower in cloud forest, Tandayapa Valley, western slope of Andes, Ecuador

Michael & Patricia Fogden / Hoary Puffleg (Haplophaedia lugens) hummingbird in cloud forest, Tandayapa Valley, western slope of Andes, Ecuador

Michael & Patricia Fogden / Hoary Puffleg (Haplophaedia lugens) hummingbird in cloud forest, Tandayapa Valley, western slope of Andes, Ecuador

Michael & Patricia Fogden / Green Violet-ear (Colibri thalassinus) hummingbird feeding on nectar of Bromeliad (Pitcairnia commixta) flower in cloud forest, Tandayapa Valley, western slope of Andes, Ecuador

Michael & Patricia Fogden / Booted Racket-tail (Ocreatus underwoodii) hummingbird male feeding on nectar of Bomarea (Bomarea multiflora) flower in cloud forest, Tandayapa Valley, western slope of Andes, Ecuador

Michael & Patricia Fogden / White-necked Jacobin (Florisuga mellivora) hummingbird male feeding on nectar of Canna (Canna sp) flower in cloud forest, Tandayapa Valley, western slope of Andes, Ecuador

Michael & Patricia Fogden / Green-fronted Lancebill (Doryfera ludovicae) hummingbird feeding on nectar of Heath (Psammisia columbiensis) flower in cloud forest, Tandayapa Valley, western slope of Andes, Ecuador

Michael & Patricia Fogden / Sparkling Violet-ear (Colibri coruscans) hummingbird male feeding on nectar of Heath (Cavendishia bracteata) flower in cloud forest, Tandayapa Valley, western slope of Andes, Ecuador

Michael & Patricia Fogden / Flame-rumped Tanager (Ramphocelus flammigerus) male feeding on Hollowheart (Acnistus arborescens) berries in cloud forest, Tandayapa Valley, western slope of Andes, Ecuador

Michael & Patricia Fogden / Empress Brilliant (Heliodoxa imperatrix) hummingbird male feeding on nectar of Heath (Macleania ericae) flower in cloud forest, Tandayapa Valley, western slope of Andes, Ecuador

Michael & Patricia Fogden / Empress Brilliant (Heliodoxa imperatrix) hummingbird female feeding on nectar of Heath (Cavendishia bracteata) flower in cloud forest, Tandayapa Valley, western slope of 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 / Hollowheart (Acnistus arborescens) flowers being pollinated by Bees (Apidae) in cloud forest, Tandayapa Valley, western slope of Andes, Ecuador

Michael & Patricia Fogden / Wedge-billed Hummingbird (Augastes geoffroyi) male stretching wings in cloud forest, Tandayapa Valley, western slope of Andes, Ecuador

Michael & Patricia Fogden / Sparkling Violet-ear (Colibri coruscans) hummingbird male feeding on nectar of Heath (Cavendishia bracteata) flower in cloud forest, Tandayapa Valley, western slope of Andes, Ecuador

Michael & Patricia Fogden / Sparkling Violet-ear (Colibri coruscans) hummingbird male feeding on nectar of Heath (Cavendishia bracteata) flower in cloud forest, Tandayapa Valley, western slope of Andes, Ecuador

Michael & Patricia Fogden / Masked Trogon (Trogon personatus) male in cloud forest, Tandayapa Valley, western slope of Andes, Ecuador

Michael & Patricia Fogden / White-winged Brush-Finch (Atlapetes leucopterus) feeding on Hollowheart (Acnistus arborescens) berries in cloud forest, Tandayapa Valley, western slope of Andes, Ecuador

Michael & Patricia Fogden / Thick-billed Euphonia (Euphonia laniirostris) male feeding on Hollowheart (Acnistus arborescens) berries in cloud forest, Tandayapa Valley, western slope of Andes, Ecuador

Michael & Patricia Fogden / Thick-billed Euphonia (Euphonia laniirostris) female feeding on Hollowheart (Acnistus arborescens) berries in cloud forest, Tandayapa Valley, western slope of Andes, Ecuador

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

Michael & Patricia Fogden / Western Emerald (Chlorostilbon melanorhynchus) hummingbird male feeding on nectar of Bomarea (Bomarea multiflora) flower in cloud forest, Tandayapa Valley, western slope of Andes, Ecuador

Michael & Patricia Fogden / Booted Racket-tail (Ocreatus underwoodii) hummingbird male feeding on nectar of Bomarea (Bomarea multiflora) flower in cloud forest, Tandayapa Valley, western slope of Andes, Ecuador

Michael & Patricia Fogden / Booted Racket-tail (Ocreatus underwoodii) hummingbird male feeding on nectar of Tiger Orchid (Elleanthus robustus) flower in cloud forest, Tandayapa Valley, western slope of Andes, Ecuador

Michael & Patricia Fogden / White-necked Jacobin (Florisuga mellivora) hummingbird male feeding on nectar of Canna (Canna sp) flower in cloud forest, Tandayapa Valley, western slope of Andes, Ecuador

Pete Oxford / Pale-mandibled aracari (Pteroglossus erythropygius) perched in fruiting fig tree, Mindo cloudforest, Mindo, Choco, Ecuador, endemic

Pete Oxford / Pale-mandibled aracari (Pteroglossus erythropygius) perched in fruiting fig tree, Mindo cloudforest, Mindo, Choco, Ecuador, endemic

Pete Oxford / Pale-mandibled aracari (Pteroglossus erythropygius) perched in fig tree, Mindo cloudforest, Mindo, Choco, Ecuador, endemic

Pete Oxford / Pale-mandibled aracari (Pteroglossus erythropygius) perched, calling, Mindo cloudforest, Mindo, Choco, Ecuador, endemic

Pete Oxford / Pale-mandibled aracari (Pteroglossus erythropygius) feeding in fruiting fig tree, Mindo cloudforest, Mindo, Choco, Ecuador, endemic

Pete Oxford / Pale-mandibled aracari (Pteroglossus erythropygius) feeding in fruiting fig tree, Mindo cloudforest, Mindo, Choco, Ecuador, endemic

Tim Fitzharris / Cloud forest landscape, Tandayapa Valley, Ecuador

Tim Fitzharris / Cloud forest with diverse vegetation, Tandayapa Valley, Ecuador

Alan Watson / Spine covered tree trunk, lowland tropical rainforest, Coqui, Chocó Department, Pacific Coast, Colombia

Alan Watson / Spine covered tree trunk, lowland tropical rainforest, Coqui, Chocó Department, Pacific Coast, Colombia

Alan Watson / Snake in lowland tropical rainforest, Coqui, Chocó Department, Pacific Coast, Colombia

Alan Watson / Lowland tropical rainforest and beach, Coqui, Chocó Department, Pacific Coast, Colombia, October 2007

Alan Watson / Higueron tree (Ficus sp) buttresses roots, in lowland tropical rainforest, Coqui, Chocó Department, Pacific Coast, Colombia

Alan Watson / Pringamosa tree (Urera caracasana) with cauliflorous flowers, in lowland tropical rainforest, Coqui, Chocó Department, Pacific Coast, Colombia

Alan Watson / Three Leafcutter ants (Atta sp) carrying leaves on buttress of a Higueron tree (Ficus sp.) in lowland tropical rainforest, Coqui, Chocó Department, Pacific Coast, Colombia

Alan Watson / Higueron tree (Ficus sp) buttresses roots, in lowland tropical rainforest, Coqui, Chocó Department, Pacific Coast, Colombia

Alan Watson / Aerial roots of a Strangler fig (Ficus sp) in lowland tropical rainforest, Coqui, Chocó Department, Pacific Coast, Colombia

Alan Watson / Aerial roots of a Strangler fig (Ficus sp) in lowland tropical rainforest, Coqui, Chocó Department, Pacific Coast, Colombia

Alan Watson / Pringamosa tree (Urera caracasana) flowers, in lowland tropical rainforest, Coqui, Chocó Department, Pacific Coast, Colombia

Alan Watson / Cauliflorous flowers of a Pringamosa tree (Urera caracasana) and fronds of a Panama hat palm (Carludovica palmata) in lowland tropical rainforest, Coqui, Chocó Department, Pacific Coast, Colombia

Tui De Roy / Andean Cock-of-the-rock (Rupicola peruvianus) male in dawn courtship display at lek, Mindo Valley, Choco Darien cloud forest, Andes Mountains, Ecuador

Pete Oxford / Poison arrow frog {Dendrobates sylvaticus} Choco forest, Ecuado

Pete Oxford / Poison arrow frog {Dendrobates sylvaticus} Choco forest, Ecuador.

Pete Oxford / Poison arrow frog calling {Dendrobates sylvaticus} Choco forest, Ecuador

Pete Oxford / Poison arrow frog {Dendrobates sylvaticus} Choco forest, Ecuado

Pete Oxford / Splendid Poison Dart Frog (Dendrobates sylvaticus) pair on a leaf in the Choco Rainforest, Esmeraldas Province, northwestern Ecuador

Pete Oxford / Splendid Poison Dart Frog (Dendrobates sylvaticus) on a leaf in the Choco Rainforest, Esmeraldas Province, northwestern Ecuador

Pete Oxford / Anolis Lizard (Anolis sp) male, Esmeraldas, Choco rainforest, Ecuador

Pete Oxford / Anolis Lizard (Anolis sp) male on Heliconia, Esmeraldas, Choco rainforest, Ecuador

Pete Oxford / Vine Snake (Oxybelis brevirostris) aggressive display, Choco rainforest, northwest Ecuador

Pete Oxford / Bocourt's Dwarf Iguana (Enyalioides heterolepis), Esmeraldas, Choco Rainforest, Ecuador

Pete Oxford / Bocourt's Dwarf Iguana (Enyalioides heterolepis), Esmeraldas, Choco Rainforest, Ecuador

Pete Oxford / Bocourt's Dwarf Iguana (Enyalioides heterolepis) close up, Esmeraldas, Choco Rainforest, Ecuador

Pete Oxford / Anolis Lizard (Anolis sp) male eating a cricket, undescribed species, Choco Rainforest, Ecuador

Pete Oxford / Anolis Lizard (Anolis sp) male eating a cricket, undescribed species, Choco Rainforest, Ecuador

Pete Oxford / Neotropical Green Anole (Anolis biporcatus) female on Heliconia, Esmeraldas, Choco Rainforest, Ecuador

Pete Oxford / Neotropical Green Anole (Anolis biporcatus) female on Heliconia, Esmeraldas, Choco Rainforest, Ecuador

Pete Oxford / Neotropical Green Anole (Anolis biporcatus) female on Heliconia, Esmeraldas, Choco Rainforest, Ecuador

Pete Oxford / Glass Frog (Hyalinobatrachium sp) adult with egg-clutch full of tadpoles on underside of leaf, Choco rainforest, northwest Ecuador

Pete Oxford / Glass Frog (Hyalinobatrachium sp) egg clutch of fully developed tadpoles on underside of leaf, Choco rainforest, northwest Ecuador

Pete Oxford / Glass Frog (Hyalinobatrachium sp) adult and egg clutch of fully developed tadpoles on underside of leaf over water, Choco rainforest, Ecuador

Pete Oxford / Glass Frog (Hyalinobatrachium sp) adult atop leaf with egg-clutch of tadpoles on underside showing through fully developed tadpoles dropped into the stream below, Choco rainforest, northwest Ecuador

Pete Oxford / Glass Frog (Hyalinobatrachium sp) egg clutch on underside of leaf showing fully developed tadpoles ready to drop into stream below, Choco rainforest, northwest Ecuador

Pete Oxford / Northern Eyelash Boa (Trachyboa boulengeri) in defensive posture on leaf litter, Choco Rainforest, northwest Ecuador

Pete Oxford / Northern Eyelash Boa (Trachyboa boulengeri) coiled, Choco Rainforest, northwest Ecuador

Pete Oxford / Northern Eyelash Boa (Trachyboa boulengeri) among the leaf litter, Choco Rainforest, northwest Ecuador

Pete Oxford / Chachi Tree Frog (Hyla picturata) adult, Choco Rainforest, threatened habitat, Ecuador

Pete Oxford / Chachi Tree Frog (Hyla picturata) adult, Choco Rainforest, threatened habitat, Ecuador

Pete Oxford / Chachi Tree Frog (Hyla picturata) adult, Choco Rainforest, threatened habitat, Ecuador

Pete Oxford / Chachi Tree Frog (Hyla picturata), Choco Rainforest, threatened habitat, northwestern Ecuador

Pete Oxford / Bocourt's Dwarf Iguana (Enyalioides heterolepis) close-up, Esmeraldas, Choco Rainforest, Ecuador

Pete Oxford / Bocourt's Dwarf Iguana (Enyalioides heterolepis) close up, Esmeraldas, Choco Rainforest, Ecuador

Pete Oxford / Bocourt's Dwarf Iguana (Enyalioides heterolepis), Esmeraldas, Choco Rainforest, Ecuador

Pete Oxford / Bocourt's Dwarf Iguana (Enyalioides heterolepis) close up, Esmeraldas, Choco Rainforest, Ecuador

Pete Oxford / Bocourt's Dwarf Iguana (Enyalioides heterolepis), Esmeraldas, Choco Rainforest, Ecuador

Pete Oxford / Splendid Poison Dart Frog (Dendrobates sylvaticus), Choco Rainforest, Esmeraldas, northwest Ecuador

Pete Oxford / Large-scaled Black Tree Snake (Chironius grandisquamis) close up, Choco Rainforest, northwest Ecuador

Pete Oxford / Large-scaled Black Tree Snake (Chironius grandisquamis) close up of head, Choco Rainforest, northwest Ecuador

Pete Oxford / Chachi Tree Frog (Hyla picturata) silhouette, threatened habitat, Choco Rainforest, Ecuador

Gerry Ellis / Deforested hillside of wet montane rainforest near Los Cedros Biological Reserve, Choco Phytogeographic region, northwest Ecuador

Tui De Roy / Andean Cock-of-the-rock (Rupicola peruvianus) female and chicks in nest on ravine wall, Pichincha Volcano slope, Choco Darien cloud forest, Andes Mountains, Ecuador

Mark Moffett / Embera Choco people use a distinctive kind of blowgun and secretion from Golden Poison Dart Frog (Phyllobates terribilis) to poison on their darts for hunting, Colombia

Tui De Roy / Andean Cock-of-the-rock (Rupicola peruvianus) male in dawn courtship display, Mindo Valley, Choco Darien cloud forest, Andes Mountains, Ecuador

Tui De Roy / Toucan Barbet (Semnornis ramphastinus) feeding on berries in the cloud forest, Tandayapa Valley, western slope of Pichincha Volcano, Choco Darien Ecoregion, Andes Mountains, Ecuador

Tui De Roy / Buff-tailed Coronet (Boissonneaua flavescens) hummingbird at a bromeliad in cloud forest on west slope of Pichincha Volcano, Choco Darien region, Andes Mountains, Ecuador