Smooth-billed Ani in Ecuador

I'm still re-playing memories of the days I spent in the foothills of the Andes in Ecuador last month. The Smooth-billed Ani was not a "new" bird for me (having seen one in Florida years ago), but this one provided a serendipitous moment when it popped out of a bush almost at arms length just as I was riding by in a pickup truck with my Ecuadorean driver and guide, Byron and Edwin.