First of all, a happy new year to you all. We hope it's going to be a terrific year for everybody with life a little easier than it was...

We are proud to present the project report of the EPHI (Ecology of Plant / Hummingbird Interactions) project for Santa Lucía. Originally...

In April 2019 Morgan Hughes and Scott Brown (both University of Wolverhampton) visited the Santa Lucía reserve and had a brief look into...

People in the Santa Lucía region were complaining about too much rain in August. It was said that this was the rainiest august in many...

Finally we had to chance to visit the camera traps after two months of quarantine at home. Almost all camera got attacked / moved by...

Today, let's have a look at the monitoring data for the different woodcreeper species that there are in Santa Lucía. Although only two of...

Not surprisingly the Gray-breasted Wood-Wren (Henicorhina leucophrys) is something like the star amongst our birds - at least when it...

So, while we currently do not have any visitors at Santa Lucía, most of us are sitting at home. That means that - for the researchers...

Check out this report by Ailsa Lamond, former student of the University of Sussex: http://sro.sussex.ac.uk/id/eprint/65370/ She analysed...

And while we're sitting locked up in our homes, it's time for a more or less elaborate look at the data. Here's a quick summary of the...

As we expected from the beginning of the current world-wide crisis the Santa Lucía community is heavily affected by travel restrictions,...

This year we expect a student of Sussex University to support the bird monitoring at the Santa Lucía reserve. Although we had to postpone...

Thanks to the Corona-Virus-Quarantine we were finally able to get rid of the huge backlog in reviewing the camera trapping data....

The first two months of 2020 in Santa Lucía felt really dry. Here are the numbers January + February of the last three years: 2018: 855mm...

We did the monitoring of flowering orchids in our orchid garden early this months. The good news is: there are still more than 20 species...

Walking in the big footsteps of Natacha, Julia and Nicolas (last year's volunteers) we have two students of the Hoogeschool Gent, Belgium...

Although we did observe some rara birds in the reserve in 2019 (Long-wattled Umbrellabird, Western Wood-Pewee, etc. ) there were no real...

Here's the Top 15 most registered animals in our camera traps (excluding human beings and domestic animals). There are surprisingly many...

So here's a little graph that shows that differences in rainfall down here in La Delicia (Nanegal) and around the Lodge. The places are...

Last week a friend of us, Javier Robayo, visited us and he brought another friend, Marco Monteros. Both work for the Eco-Mingo foundation...