We just got our latest Audubon Mag in the mail (Mar/Apr/09). Hubby says look at the cover, it's an Aracari. (one of my all time fav birds) He continues and says the pic is taken by Roy!
There is a wonderful article about Pico Bonito in Honduras. "A birder's paradise" All of the pics in the article are taken by Roy. The article is about conservation of course and trying to get pics of several birds esp. the cotinga (it's is a bird that's difficult to see.)

This is from the editors note:
” The bird lives high in the rainforest canopy, so is very hard to see—and even harder to photograph. “The cotinga is a true money bird,” Toft says. “Birders will come from all over the states and U.K. just to see it.” Three weeks after he was skunked on his first trip for Audubon, the Lodge at Pico Bonito invited him back to try again, and he returned to Honduras. For a week the lodge stationed four guides in the forest. Each time they radioed Toft, he would grab his 50 pounds of camera gear and lug it up the hills in the thick heat—“We were sweaty messes,” he says—only to see a flash of blue vanish in the distance. At long last, after so many dashed hopes, Toft shot the rare photo of the cotinga you’ll see on page 58 of the print edition.


Nice article!
By the way we have been out of town for 9 days and coming back and trying to find threads I was following has not been easy. By the time I find them I'm too pooped to comment! Still not sure about this new format.

Oh, wow, that's so cool. Is there any way to post the photograph?

When we were at BdC, they had a big wooden shack of a house strung up in the air; it was so Roy could photography baby toucans in their nest. I'm wondering when his book will come out. It seems like people have been talking about it for years. I can't wait to buy it.

If you click on your name, a list of threads you commented on will come up - that may help you with the ones you were following.

That's really interesting, parrmt. Thanks for sharing. I'll have to try and hunt down a copy of the magazine.

Thanks Toni! I will keep an eye out for it. Yeah, the book is a little delayed Hope it will come out one of these days!

Got an e-mail from Roy that says he hopes the book will be out July-August. Since I'm on the mailing list I should get heads up when it finally happens!

here is the mag link, I have had his web site bookmarked for quite a while, glad to hear the book will be out soon. I bet it is a stunner!!

http://audubonmagazine.org/


VG, the tip helped to find some of the threads. Thanks

Wow, gorgeous bird and so happy to know the book is coming out soon!

Hope I can find it when I get back to the states for a visit in a few weeks. His pictures are just amazing. We had a good visit with him and his wife when we were there last time. He treated all of us to a nice slide show. Don't know what was more fun, his sense of humor or his pictures. His next project as of last August was to start taking pictures of higher altitude birds so we invited him to stop in to see what we have up here in the mountains.

This is weird -- I could have sworn I read a post about someone looking for coffee table books on Costa Rica earlier...?

Anyway, FYI Roy Toft's much awaited book is out and I believe a limited amount of 1,000 copies are available currently. I ordered one for myself.

Wow, hip, thanks for the update. His photos are amazing.

Yeah, I think it will be a good one. If I were a better photographer with better equipment I think going on one of his photo-safaris would be amazing (Botswana specificially). Apparently 1,000 copies will be available in the US and after that only in CR.

Hey - Just got my book and it's pretty fab. It's signed even. The colors are amazing and some of the shots - WHOA!

I laughed when I saw this subject pop up,... a year later!
I am ordering mine now. Thanks for the heads up