Rudy Gelis

Joined: Mar 5, 2018 Last Active: Mar 18, 2024 iNaturalist

I enjoy learning and teaching and I am more interested in figuring things out rather than being right.

links and website useful for ID:

butterflies of the americas: https://www.butterfliesofamerica.com/L/Neotropical.htm

butterflies in the Amazon: http://www.learnaboutbutterflies.com/Amazon%20-%20Charis%20anius.htm

butterflies of cotacachi: https://www.cotacachi.eu/en/

best for line drawings of all orchids: https://orchid.unibas.ch/index.php/en/database-search/advanced-search?reset=1

orchidspecies.com great for pics, plus often synonymy and more

florula of nearby maquipucuna: https://maqui.ucdavis.edu/

orchids of maquipucuna: https://fieldguides.fieldmuseum.org/sites/default/files/rapid-color-guides-pdfs/166_Maquipucuna_orchids_1.pdf

vascular flora of ecuador, outdated but nice to see thousands of herbarium specimens' locality data: http://www.tropicos.org/ProjectAdvSearch.aspx?projectid=2

2-face book groups: REIVINDICANDO A LAS ARAÑAS (Vindicating SPIDERS)--one of my favorite groups; admins strictly control postings and fear and idiocy; Faceplant, mostly in Spanish, superb for botany; planet pleurothallid; epidendrum; American Orchid Society;

great website for ctenids: https://www.wandering-spiders.net/ancylometes/gallery/

youtube videos of Mindo project during pandemia: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCio0RKTvh0nkvh5nLvW-csA/videos

A lot of, as yet, undescribed orchids. Here are some pleurothallids:
https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/93105968
https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/105578362
https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/78760189
https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/124143807
https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/78732168
https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/78649096
https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/74985599
https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/74969764
https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/66934815
https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/50493299
https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/48500207
https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/46770731
https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/20162594
https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/13223555
https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/38845475 maybe same as : https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/153568460

https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/88763051
https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/47932423
https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/14540000
https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/117760489
https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/16171687
https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/36306195
https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/35582622
https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/20285096
https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/123624576
https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/141018598
https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/118702915=148855612

To be on the lookout if exploring far from home: Epidendrum
https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/107868273
https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/105030838
https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/107868271
https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/93105929 nearer to home

A world record in birding:

1) an interview of me talking about the Big Day: https://vimeo.com/142512940
2) an interview with a Viking about the Big Day: https://vimeo.com/142393810
3) an interview with a Dutchman about the Big Day: https://vimeo.com/user13440845
4) scouting and dunking a basketball for the biggest day in birding history: https://vimeo.com/144011883
5) dawn chorus of the Big Day, 08 oct 2015: https://vimeo.com/143055241
6) random clips from scouting for the Big Day:
https://vimeo.com/143878885

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