This fuller frame of Cecropia includes a large male anole (N. polylepis) in the center of the photograph. I didn’t have a my telephoto lens at the time, so I just sat quietly and observed its display. Zack, a student in the Tropical Field Biology course, and I were also able to spot a red-capped manakin foraging near by, presumably on berries.
Tag Archives: Osa Peninsula
Cecropia
In a light gap off a trail on Osa, fast growing Cecropia thrive with their symbiotic ant colonies.
Bat root
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Students emerge from a hollow, rotten buttress filled with bats on a trail in Campanario.
Good morning, Leona
The Pacific greeted us with this view on the morning we hiked from Sirena to La Leona.
Zygopterans
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The one on the left approached about 6 inches in length… maybe a Pseudostigmatidae.
Rio Pargo
Bryan catches dinner
In the bottom left of the first picture, Bryan fishes for snapper. Of course, like any real fisherman, after having caught two decently sized fish, he refused to leave until he caught the big one. He never did catch it and we walked back to our tents in the dark.
Llorona
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A 2.5 hour hike from the San Pedrillo field station through the most pristine, primary rainforest yields to Playa Llorona, a stunning, black-sand beach at the mouth of Rio Llorona.
Coniophanes fissidens
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One of two snakes we saw, Coniophanes fissidens is a somewhat dull, rear-fanged, litter-dwelling snake. Another species in the same genus, Coniophanes piceivittis, is common in Palo Verde and packs a mean bite.
Rio San Pedrillo Sampling Site
This stretch was our second sampling site in the San Pedrillo sector of Parque Nacional Corcovado. Ohio needs to rethink it’s streams.