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Wood Thrush (Hylocichla mustelina) with beetle at the low lands of Costa Rica, Guapiles

A Quest To Save Wood Thrush And Jaguars In Nicaragua’s Largest Remaining Forest

A few weeks ago, American Bird Conservancy run a pretty nice article featuring one of my images of the Wood Thrush in the tropical Rainforest of Costa Rica.

Resplendent Quetzal (Pharomachrus mocinno) feeding chick in nest Feature

At the “Augsburger Allgemeine” German Newspaper

A couple of weeks ago a few of my Resplendent Quetzals images appeared at the Augsburger Allgemeine, in the Mensch & Tier section. Maybe you saw it in person if you live in the south of Germany.

Raptors of Mexico and Central America Book

Raptors are among the most challenging birds to identify in the field due to their bewildering variability of plumage, flight silhouettes, and behavior. Raptors of Mexico and Central America is the first illustrated guide to the region’s 69 species of raptors, including vagrants.
It features 32 stunning color plates and 213 color photos and I was lucky to contribute with several of my own.

A year camera trapping in the highlands of Costa Rica

I had a project in mind at the start of this year to get some nice images of the elusive highlands cats of Costa Rica, like the Oncilla (Leopardus tigrinus) and the Margay (Leopardus wiedii).

But before setting up the “high-end” camera traps, I needed to know where to put them, where the animals where walking at night, how where they moving, etc. So I decided to found this out this year by setting up game cameras in the highlands of Costa Rica

White-collared Manakin (Manacus candei) male feeding from fruits at the lowlands of Costa Rica.

Cover of Oecologia

Nice to see my image of a White-collared Manakins (Manacus candei) on the cover of Oecologia.

In this issue, Wolfe et al. show that dry El Niño events were associated with strikingly low manakin survival in young forests, while El Niño events had little effect on survival in mature forests. These results suggest that mature forests may serve as refugia for fruit-eating birds during periods of climatic instability.

A little more info can be found at here

Long-billed Hermit (Phaethornis longirostris) in flight under the rain at the low lands of Costa Rica.

The rates of avian community development in forest canopy and understorey

It’s always nice to see my images put to good use. Tom it’s using my “Free to use for education” license for a poster in the annual Fellows Symposium at the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute in Panama City for The rates of avian community development in forest canopy and understory.
Very interesting poster!

If you want to learn more about my “Education and conversation licenses” you can follow this link