Only for a birder could the scenic splendor of Ecuador be surpassed by its fabled array of birds. Whether our view of the Amazonian rain forest was from a floating hotel on the Rio Napo or from a tree house some 120 feet up in a canopy giant, the exuberant avifauna kept our mouths continually open to find words for its beauty. Our journey through stubborn change-resistant land was, in many ways for us, like a wonderful dream.