If it is December and winter break, I am heading to the field to resight manakins and continue our long-term studies of bird populations and communities at Tiputini Biodiversity Station (TBS) in the Amazon of Ecuador.  On this trip, the canoe was packed!!  TBS is owned and operated by Universidad San Francisco de Quito.  Our first trip to the site was in 2000 and we’ve been back every year since, except 2021.  We have a number of collaborators, but long-term bird work has been a collaboration with John Blake.  Check out our publications from TBS here.