Some Highlights towards the end were:
About 1200 species of birds total

• Waved Albatross
• Pacific Royal Flycatcher (with crest spread)
• Orange-throated Tanager
• Esmereldas Woodstar
• Black-breasted Puffleg
• Torrent Duck
• Crescent-faced Antpitta
• Nocturnal Curassow
• Crested Owl
• Scarlet and White Tanager
• Banded Ground-Cuckoo
• Fiery Topaz
• Ornate Hawk-Eagle
• Purple-throated
• Plum-throated and Spangled Cotingas
• Puffbirds and Motmots and pretty much everything.
• Having Jocotoco Antpitta find me before I found it.
• Squirrel Monkeys and Hammerhead Sharks
• Amazon Tree Boa
• Catching Swallow-tailed Nightjar
• Birding with my good friend Kai Reed
• Ceviche and Beach Time in Rio Ayampe
• Visiting Cordillera Del Condor
• Stealing and eating all the pineapples from the guard station in Rio Bombuscaro
• Plus all the good stuff from before was still good.

Lowlights:

• 5 weeks in a row at Bellavista without seeing the sun once.
• Armed Robbery
• RAIN
• Learning our tent was not waterproof after setting it up in a downpour at Guacamayos Ridge.
• Getting lost at Cordillera Del Condor and catching and eating an Agouti
• Surviving 3 days on nothing but Avocado
• MUD
• The 3 mile death march in 105 degree heat on Isla de la Plata (there is no shade on the whole island)
• The amount of deforestation
• The lack of oxygen at 15,000 ft (though Rufous-* bellied Seedsnipe were a good bonus)
• Going the entire 6 months in Ecuador without seeing
• Andean Condor
• Army Ant attacks
• Near-death encounter with Bushmaster
• RICE
• Bush Tanagers
• 400+ hours of bus travel
• Oh, and Rain.

Weirdlights:

• Someone decided to abandon their 6 month old baby in my lap while I was sleeping on the bus. They picked the baby up about 7 hours later and gave me 50 cents.
• Having 3 Ecuadorians insist on having their picture taken with me because they though I was Elton John (WHAT?!?)
• Shaving with a candle because I didn't have a razor but needed to get rid of the beard (The Amazon is too hot and full of ants for beards).