Far Afield: Panama “I wish I had a tape recorder,” my husband remarked as we climbed the spiral walkway of the observation tower at the Gamboa Rainforest Resort. Dawn was breaking as the jungle came alive with sounds straight out of a Tarzan movie. The guttural roars of howler monkeys competed with the raucous keekorok! …
It is a dreadful task to try to condense more than 25,000 words of my writings on Guyana into a 2,000-word article. Perhaps I should select every twelfth word in the narrative. It would read something like this: wet hot birds beautiful floppy anteater, and perhaps stand a better chance of capturing this place than …
Introduction Wake up to the calls of barred antshrikes, ferruginous pygmy-owls, blue-crowned motmots. Step out onto the porch of your cabin and see a male tufted coquette and silver-beaked tanager in the treetop. Then make your way to the veranda to view the early morning feeder frenzy—white-necked jacobins, honeycreepers, several other species of hummingbirds and …
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Introduction to the Neotropics—a Winter Trip to Trinidad and Tobago Introduction Wake up to the calls of barred antshrikes, ferruginous pygmy-owls, blue-crowned motmots. Step out onto the porch of your cabin and see a male tufted coquette and silver-beaked tanager in the treetop. Then make your way to the veranda to view the early morning …
