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I go where the world gets quiet enough for the wild to feel unreal.
#oceanlovers by @eyeofandres

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3 years ago

🌎Natures wonder: Green-crowned Brilliant- Heliodoxa jaculaIts! Heart can race to 1,200 beats per minute, its wings blur up to 90 times a second. Every day, it visits thousands of flowers in search of nectar. In absolute terms, it survives on only a few calories. But relative to its tiny body, that’s the equivalent of a human eating around 70 full daily diets every single day. Sugar turns straight into flight. At night, it slows almost to silence. At night, it enters torpor, slowing its heartbeat and lowering its body temperature to save energy.
#hummingbirds taken in San Francisco De Borja, Napo, Ecuador by @eyeofandres

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25 days ago

Letting my little Sun to shine!
#sun #shine #light by @eyeofandres

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a month ago

He looked past me and chose the eye on my hand...
#blueheadedpionus #ring #eye taken in Ecuador by @eyeofandres

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2 months ago

He wasn't looking at me...
He was looking at someone who mattered more.
#monkeys jungle primates #sachayacu by @eyeofandres

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3 months ago

We're not observing anymore...we're being seen.
#monkey #amazon #primates by @eyeofandres

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3 months ago

You think you’re exploring the world…
until something looks back and studies you.

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#wildlifephotography #naturephotography #animalportrait #explorethewild #natgeo taken in Tena, Ecuador by @eyeofandres

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4 months ago

Would you sleep in a nest like this? A whole hanging city in the jungle!
This is an Oropendola in Ecuador - one of the most underrated birds in the Amazon.

• In these colonies, one dominant alpha male (in the photo) usually controls most of the mating
The other males rarely get access to the females - they are welcome stay on the sidelines and watch, or may leave to try their chances elsewhere 🥲

• Only females are builders - they build long hanging nests up to 1 meter, woven like ropes. It takes weeks of precision work and they have often one backup nest

• Colonies can have dozens of nests on one tree

• Males perform loud, almost mechanical calls, sounds like water droplet to attract attention

• And yes… they choose trees where snakes and monkeys can’t easily reach - trees with ant and wasp nests - because survival here is not luck, it’s design!

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#oropendola #amazon wanderlust #wildelifephotography taken in Tena, Ecuador by @eyeofandres

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4 months ago

The wild doesn’t disappear in rescue.
It waits, watches, and remembers.
Ocelot - Sacha Yacu Animal Rescue Center.
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#sachayacu #ocelot #wildlifephotography by @eyeofandres

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4 months ago

Letting the river carry what I can’t...
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#natureisbeautiful #forestphotography #slowmotion #river by @eyeofandres

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5 months ago

Nature works in mysterious ways...

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#waterfallhunting #dronecinematography
#wildplaces #junglevibes #natureescape by @eyeofandres

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5 months ago

Riding the last light of the day...

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#modernexplorer #thevisualcollective
#exploretocreate #visualstoryteller #artofvisuals taken in Ayampe, Manabi, Ecuador by @eyeofandres

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5 months ago