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Photos on this website were taken by Jeff Cardwell, Barry Heller, Spencer Jack, Vinod Kutty, Ted Muhs and Dan Woodland.
  1. El Prado preserve and Rio San Martin from the air.
  2. Hill (cerro) of El Prado
  3. Natural transition of rain forest to Beni Savannas
  4. Dry season flowering canopy
  5. Rainy season forest canopy
  6. Kapok tree (Ceiba pentandra)
  7. Flowering foliage
  8. The Beni Savannas from atop El Prado's hill
  9. Hiking El Prado's trails
  10. Searching for howlers
  11. Strangler fig (Ficus spp.)
  12. LLC members, John and Vicky
  13. Birding at El Prado
  14. El Prado's cerro viewed from the Río San Martín
  15. Savanna sunset
  16. El Prado's lake
  17. High water riparian forest
  18. Village of "California"
  19. El Prado's river frontage
  20. Oxbow lake
  21. Beni sunset
  22. Río San Joaquín
  23. River rocks near Bella Vista
  24. Drifting on the San Joaquín
  25. Roger Long
  26. Flowering tree
  27. Río Blanco tributary
  28. Riparian forest-Río San Joaquín
  29. Flying over the Beni
  30. Bella Vista
  31. Río San Martin
  32. El Prado on the horizon
  33. Flowering Bromeliad
  34. Cerro Orícore
  35. Río San Martin
  36. Flyfishing for migrating sardinata
  37. 30+ lb Pirapitinga (Piaractus brachypomus)
  38. River travel
  39. Jeff with peacock bass (Cichla pleiozona)
  40. Roger flyfishing one of the Beni's many lakes
  41. J.J. "Chi Chi" with a nice Tucunaré
  42. Sardinata "Dorado"
  43. Ted with tucunaré
  44. Black piranha (Serrasalmus rhombeus)
  45. Sardinata
  46. Peacock bass
  47. Large peacock bass
  48. Roger with sardinata
  49. Robert with nice peacock bass
  50. Ted with a sardinata (Pellona castelnaeana)
  51. Ted with tucunaré
  52. Sardinata
  53. Apistogramma cf. similis
  54. Jeff collecting on the Río San Martín
  55. Crenicara latruncularum
  56. Unidentified Loricariid
  57. Crenicichlid
  58. Geophagus megasema
  59. Platydoras costatus
  60. Aequidens viridis
  61. Unidentified Loricariid
  62. Heros sp. Beni
  63. Vin and Woody surveying fish species
  64. Unidentified piranha and Pygocentrus nattereri
  65. Apistogramma trifasciata
  66. Large chrenicichlid
  67. Trogon
  68. Blue-fronted amazon parrot (Amazonia spp.)
  69. Hoatzin birds (Opisthocomus hoatzin)
  70. Conures (Aratinga spp.))
  71. Vermilion Flycatcher (Pyrocephalus rubinus)
  72. Chestnut-eared Aracaris
  73. Wood stork (Mycteria americana)
  74. Rufescent tiger heron (Tigrisoma spp.)
  75. Blue -and-yellow macaw (Ara araraura)
  76. Black-collared hawks
  77. Blue-and-yellow macaws
  78. Ringed kingfisher (Megaceryle torquata)
  79. Rhea (Rhea americana)
  80. Yellow-rumped caciques (Cacicus cela)
  81. Roseate spoonbill and cormorant
  82. Roseate spoonbill
  83. Blue-and-golds
  84. Jabirus (Jabiru mycteria)
  85. Toco toucan (Ramphastos)
  86. Spoonbills in the Savannas
  87. Jabiru and night heron
  88. Red-and-green macaw (A. chloroptera)
  89. Pet amazon parrot
  90. Cormorants near Cerro Orícore
  91. Heliconia butterflies
  92. butterfly (sp.?)
  93. Owl butterfly (Caligo memnon)
  94. moth (sp.?)
  95. Butterfly (sp.?)
  96. Diurnal urania moths
  97. Butterfly diversity at El Prado
  98. Urinas Moth
  99. Caterpiller
  100. Urticating caterpillars
  101. Eight inch caterpillar!
  102. Butterfly
  103. Moth
  104. Capybara (Hydrochaeris hydrochaeris) -Río San Martín
  105. Capybara-Río Blanco
  106. Black caiman (Melanosuchus niger)
  107. Large black caiman-Río San Martín
  108. Giant freshwater stingray (Potamotrygon)
  109. Night fishing for stingrays
  110. Adult yellow-spotted river turtles (Podocnemis unifilis)
  111. Podocnemis unifilis, juvenile
  112. Huge black caiman skull-Bella Vista
  113. Whiptail lizard
  114. Pink "Bufeo" river dolphin ((Inia boliviensis)
  115. Jaguar track (Panthera onca)
  116. Three-toed sloth (Bradypus variegatus)
  117. Young peccary
  118. Tree frog
  119. Pink river dolphin
  120. "Bufeo" river dolphin
  121. Airstrip-Bella Vista
  122. Collecting plantains near El Prado
  123. Itonama children at El Prado
  124. El Prado's pasture
  125. Young women in Bella Vista
  126. View from El Prado's guest house
  127. El Prado
  128. Young Benianas in Bella Vista
  129. Collecting fuel wood in Magdalena
  130. Highwater-Río San Martín
  131. Bella Vista
  132. Jeff collecting
  133. Wild flowering cacao
  134. Bella Vista
  135. Early morning at El Prado
  136. El Prado
  137. Weighing Pacu in Bella Vista
  138. Pacu in boat
  139. Atop Cerro Orícore
  140. Foliage atop Cerro Orícore
  141. Conducting research in El Prado's guest house
  142. Hotel Tucunaré
  143. Camping in Orícore
  144. Toronjas
 
 

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