Curu Wildlife Refuge
Curu Wildlife Refuge is home to endless amounts of trees fruiting with coconuts, mangrove estuaries, and rows upon rows of mango trees that have long since forgotten how to fruit. Amongst one of these patches of mango trees is our other banding station, and tucked along the trails that bisect a unique edge habitat of White Mangrove trees are our nets. We placed the 22 nets strategically so they would bisect the many attributes of this unique habitat. We catch a wide variety of resident species, whose unique attributes and colors blend them into the harsh environment of this unique tropical...
Read MoreElegant Trogon (Trogon elegans) by Sean Graesser
This is an Elegant Trogon (Trogon elegans), one of the two Trogon species that can actually occur in the United States. Two years ago we first observed a female at our site in Curu Wildlife Reserve. This species was normally not found this far south on the Nicoya Peninsula in Costa Rica. The next year we caught a male in our nets, the bird pictured. The first time we saw the female we chalked it up to a vagrant that might have gone too far down during a migration in search of a reliable fruit source. But with the male being caught the next year we are trying to figure out if it’s a species...
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