Ian and Felicity were active participant’s in Peru’s 10th National Ornithology Congress, presenting their research projects and co-instructing a course in bird banding techniques in Madre de Dios. The course was sponsored by Corbidi and hosted by the Asociación para la Conservación de la Cuenca Amazónica (ACCA) field station of Villa Carmen using standard techniques developed by the North American Banding Council. Many thanks to co-instructors Diego Garcia, Mauricio Ugarte, Renzo Piana, and Elio Nuñez, who organized the course.