{"id":11254,"date":"2017-03-26T09:09:24","date_gmt":"2017-03-26T09:09:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.adrianwood.ch\/?page_id=11254"},"modified":"2018-09-04T10:02:14","modified_gmt":"2018-09-04T10:02:14","slug":"01-16-la-selva","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.adrianwood.ch\/?page_id=11254","title":{"rendered":"01-16 La Selva"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Montezuma Oropendula<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

16<\/span>th<\/span>. January, <\/span>L<\/span>a<\/span>Selva<\/span><\/span><\/h2>\n

My first <\/span>organised<\/span> tour was to L<\/span>a<\/span>Selva<\/span> a nearby biological research <\/span>station <\/span>to which<\/span> students come<\/span> from many affiliated universities. In a group of <\/span>five<\/span> I was guided round the wide concreted tracks in the <\/span>forest<\/span>. <\/span>The leaf-cutter ants also find these a convenient highway but know to keep to the edge <\/span>in order <\/span>to avoid being trodden on.<\/span>After leaving the open area around the reception buildings we soon crossed the <\/span>Sarapiqui<\/span>river<\/span> and entered the jungle. The bridge gives a higher level view which enabled us to spot some small bats resting in a tree. <\/span>Our <\/span>next<\/span> sighting was of a tiny red and blue poisonous frog<\/span> (blue jeans frog) and a small lizard<\/span>, otherwise <\/span>the sightings were <\/span>mostly <\/span>of <\/span>birds high in the trees<\/span>, <\/span>notably <\/span>the<\/span> large <\/span>Keel-billed Toucan<\/span> and a <\/span>Pale-billed Woodpecker<\/span>, striking with its vivid red head and black body. Towards <\/span>the end <\/span>of the tour we saw a giant bullet ant which is reputed to have the most painful sting of all insects, a pair of<\/span> even <\/span>more <\/span>giant<\/span> centipedes and <\/span>a group o<\/span>f peccaries (a sort of pig) crossing<\/span> the <\/span>path, <\/span>but my only shot <\/span>of the peccaries shows them disappearing into the undergrowth.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Back at the lodge the bird feeder was again the main point of interest. It is situated just b<\/span>elow the open dining area <\/span>next to<\/span> a pond where red-eyed frogs can be seen at night. <\/span>(<\/span>Flash is not allowed though so no pictures<\/span> of them were possible<\/span>.<\/span>) Birds seen this time were: Montezuma <\/span>Oropendula<\/span>, <\/span>Black-<\/span>cowled<\/span> Oriole<\/span>, <\/span>Golden-hooded Tanag<\/span>e<\/span>r<\/span>, <\/span>Passerini’s<\/span> Tanager<\/span>, <\/span>Shining Honeycreeper <\/span>(male and <\/span>female<\/span>), <\/span>Red-legged Honeycreeper<\/span> and <\/span>Green Honeycreeper <\/span>(<\/span>female<\/span>).<\/span><\/span><\/p>\nngg_shortcode_0_placeholder<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

16th. January, LaSelva My first organised tour was to LaSelva a nearby biological research station to which students come from many affiliated universities. In a group of five I was guided round the wide concreted tracks in the forest. The leaf-cutter ants also find these a convenient highway but know to keep to the edge … Continue reading 01-16 La Selva<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11906,"parent":11142,"menu_order":5503,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-11254","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.adrianwood.ch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/11254","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.adrianwood.ch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.adrianwood.ch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.adrianwood.ch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.adrianwood.ch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11254"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.adrianwood.ch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/11254\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11907,"href":"https:\/\/www.adrianwood.ch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/11254\/revisions\/11907"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.adrianwood.ch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/11142"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.adrianwood.ch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/11906"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.adrianwood.ch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11254"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}