International Migratory Bird Day 2015
Sean saw a painting for International Migratory Bird Day 2015 of a Blue-crowned Motmot (Momotus momota) and Black-and-white Warbler (Mniotilta varia), and he was inspired make a quick MYN-style photo of the same scene. Photographed by RTPI Affiliate Sean Graesser for the Meet Your Neighbours global biodiversity project in Costa Rica while on assignment for the Roger Tory Peterson Institute of Natural History.
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The first pulse of this year’s MoSI, Monitoreo de Sobrevivencia Invernal (Monitoring of Winter Survivorship), station banding at the Cocobolo Nature Reserve in Panama is complete. Thus far the banding was slower than usual, mostly due to the fact that during all three days of banding we had rain off and on. Nonetheless we still managed to get some interesting species including this Royal Flycatcher (Onychorhynchus coronatus). Some of our other banding highlights included three Acadian Flycatchers (Empidonax virescens), a Blue-crowned Motmot (Momotus momota), a Snowy-bellied Hummingbird...
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