As long-standing readers of my blog will know, it is time for another online advent calendar featuring some of my favourite pictures taken this summer during my stay at Cristalino Jungle Lodge in the Brazilian Amazon. As always, day 1 is dedicated to the Bare-faced Curassows which hang around the lodge clearing and are often referred to as the lodge chickens. This year, they stopped coming in mid-July, only for the female to reappear around two weeks later with these two little fluffballs sheltering under her tail. Unfortunately, one of them disappeared, no doubt predated, after a few days, but the other was still going strong when I left the lodge in early September.
