[Videos] Lovely Cotinga - Honduras. One of Central America’s most elusive birds
Soon Homel returned to capture on video the beauty of the bird that had been his nemesis for so long, and more fully discover the 250,000 acres of “rough and tumble” country that form Honduras’ Pico Bonito National Park. He swears that capturing footage of the rare cotinga wasn’t simply an excuse to stay at a plush eco-lodge with gourmet food and the finest amenities. “I wasn’t just sitting by the pool filming lovely cotingas,” he says, “(although that did happen too). I was bushwhacking through unscathed, and mostly unroaded, mountainous terrain—one of the biggest, most intact blocks of contiguous forest in that part of the world.”
After two decades of searching, the 45-year-old photographer from southern California, who grew up at the toe of the Santa Monica Mountains, had found his Mona Lisa. What follows are clips of the lovely cotinga, as well as a variety of other charismatic birds, featured in Homel’s newly released DVD, Introducing the Wonderful Birds of Pico Bonito, Honduras. For more information about Homel’s birding tours and films, click here. To find out how to purchase the complete film on Pico Bonito, click here or contact Natural Elements Productions/Natural Encounters Birding Tours, P.O. 6221, Pine Mountain Club, CA 93222; phone: 661-231-5013; e-mail.
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Video 1: An up close look at the lovely cotinga
Video 2: Other amazing birds of Pico Bonito National Park
Video 3: Exploring Pico Bonito National Park
A photographer’s decades-long quest to film proves but a window to explore the big, wild heart of Honduras.
~ Ornithologist, bird tour guide, and videographer Greg Homel.
In 20 years of nature travel, Greg Homel had visited every continent (Antarctica 22 times), 90 countries, and seen more than 6,000 of the world’s 9,800 recognized bird species. Yet that lovely cotinga was still out there, taunting him.
