Year-end Gift to Roger Tory Peterson Institute
Dear Friends of RTPI, Just before Christmas when snow and cold started to slow down our natural history studies at home, we shifted gears and started our seasonal work in the tropics. Have you ever wondered where our summer birds spend the holidays? Well, here are a few highlights of what we are finding at the RTPI-supported Nicoya Peninsula Avian Research Station (NPARS) in northwestern Costa Rica.
Read MoreTurquoise-browed Motmot (Eumomota superciliosa)
This bird’s likely to brighten up your day – the spectacular Turquoise-browed Motmot (Eumomota superciliosa) is a common bird at the RTPI-supported Nicoya Peninsula Avian Research Station (NPARS) in northwestern Costa Rica. I briefly visited Sean Graesser and Tyler Christensen who run NPARS last week while I was doing other field work in Costa Rica. Briefly captured, banded and released, this bird is one of many that provide important information to help us solve the unanswered habitat use and migration questions we need to address still in order to adequately protect these...
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