Costa Rica banding video discussion
As you may have seen in our media bar this new HD video features RTPI Affiliate Sean Graesser discussing banding in Costa Rica’s Curu Wildlife Reserve on the Nicoya Peninsula (update – the second video can be seen here and the third video can be seen here). You can listen to Sean detailing why it is important while putting a Northern Waterthrush (Parkesia noveboracensis) through the process. This is the first of a series of videos from Costa Rica that you should look for in the media bar or our media section as well as our blog. Sean also discusses research and conservation...
Read MoreSean Graesser: banding at Curu Wildlife Reserve, Costa Rica
RTPI Affiliate Sean Graesser discusses banding in Costa Rica’s Curu Wildlife Reserve on the Nicoya Peninsula while putting a Northern Waterthrush (Parkesia noveboracensis) through the process. Sean also discusses research and conservation efforts underway there, why it is important and how our backyard birds need our help at their winter homes. Video by RTPI President Twan Leenders in December 2013.
Read MorePhiladelphia Vireo (Vireo philadelphicus) by Twan Leenders
Here’s another bird that Sean and Twan netted, banded and photographed in Costa Rica, the Philadelphia Vireo. The species in particular has quite an extensive journey each spring and fall if it is ending up in a place like Costa Rica as the majority of them breed in the Canadian boreal forest. Traveling across the entire United States plus either Mexico, the Gulf of Mexico, or a place like Cuba, then most of Central America from south to north and then north to south again in the spring is no easy feat. Can you imagine what would happen if they came to their traditional winter site and...
Read MoreProthonotary Warbler (Protonotaria citrea) by Twan Leenders
This stunning Prothonotary Warbler (Protonotaria citrea) and its vivid yellow color stand out magnificently against the white Meet Your Neighbours style background. Twan took this photo while in Costa Rica last week after it was netted and banded by Sean. It is high on my list as one of the best I’ve ever seen. Coming from Connecticut the Prothonotary is a rare treat and seeing one like this…whoa. If you can find a banded male this spring and summer in your local wetlands, stream, swamp, bottomland forest or associated habitats it may just be this bird!
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