[Bristol-Birds] Moyle announces all-star birding group for BBC Ecuador trip
- From: "Wallace Coffey" <jwcoffey@xxxxxxxxxx>
- To: "Bristol-birds" <bristol-birds@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 15 Jan 2008 22:49:20 -0500
The Bristol Bird Club birding/wildlife expedition to the Andean Mountains
of Ecuador in July is quickly filling up.
BBC President Dave Worley, who will also be on the trip, was proud of the
club's project and talked about
his making flight ticket arrangements.
Dr. John Moyle, who chairs the BBC Rainforest Adventures Committee, said
later that an all-star group
of experienced area birders have signed up.
He told members attending tonight's meeting that nine birders have joined
the trip list.
Amazingly, many birders from across Tennessee and particularly from
Northern Virginia have sent
in requests for information and are on standby. Moyle said the capacity will
be about fourteen birders.
All interested BBC members and other local birders are getting the highest
priority.
The standing committee was appointed in August 2006 by then BBC President
Bill Grigsby. They
were assigned the task to research and plan regular birding tours to areas of
Central America, South
America and the West Indies. The committee was established as a result of the
club's highly successful
2006 trip to Trinidad and Tobago. That trip to the northern area of Central
America produced 178 species
with birders each easily getting 70+ life birds.
The group will fly into and out of Quito, the capitol. In Ecuador, they
will visit a variety of habitats including high
montane cloud forest, pre-montane cloud forest, paramo, agricultural areas,
mountain stream valleys and eastern
slope subtropical cloud forest. They will delight to a vast diversity of
species against a background of moss-draped
trees, bromeliads and tree-ferns or grassy paramo.
The birders will have great vistas of the high Andes, valleys of cloud
forest and high elevation towns and farms
of the Ecuadorian people. Quito, itself, is a beautiful Spanish-style city
with fabulous churches and squares.
It will be a wonderful trip at a great price. What a great birding and
wildlife experience!
BBC members were pleased to learn of the interest and quality of birders
joining this year's adventure.
We all owe a great deal of thanks to the wonderful effort and results for
the Ecuador trip.
Let's go birding......
Wallace Coffey
Bristol, TN
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