| Sean, a student who received funding to examine bill color in foraging birds from Ohio-Wesleyan University, and I made our way to Bocana and watched a crocodile swim pass (not pictured). |  |
Catalina and Bocana
Tag Archives: Palo Verde
Catalina wetland
The wetland plant composition is slightly different in Catalina. Pistia seems to dominate many open water areas, rather than Eichhornia and there are large patches of Lemna (pictured below) in some parts. Of course, the dominate emergent is Typha, but there is some Thalia. The Typha seems much more dominate this year than last, but I’m not sure if the wetland is managed similar to the wetland in the Palo Verde sector. Margins of the wetland have lots of Parkinsonia.
Rio Tempisque
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Flowering Neptunia and Eichhornia
Colorful orthopterans
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If I brought one back, would you eat this? You know when a big, juicy, harmless, herbivore presents itself to the world with this type of coloration, there must be something that is deterring predators from completely annihilating its population.
From the Top
Hovering fly
I don’t know if this is a Syrphid (hoverfly), but it was certainly hovering. Generally, Syrphids have some yellow-black patterning, but this individual lacked that generally obvious characteristic. I only took two photographs of the fly, but both turned out kind of cool.
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Me hace falta mi machete
I lost my machete. I left it on a bench and it’s gone… as is a piece of me. Que triste.
Nymphaea collection
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I collected about 50 lbs of Nymphaea amazonum today.
Sweet ride
Mahmood has bikes!