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 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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