At 11:28 PM 27/05/01 +0000, John Leonard wrote:
At the risk of seriously gripping off large numbers of people I could
relate how on a recent birding tour of Costa Rica we spent one morning on
a forest trail and saw 45 - 50 spp (with the aid of tapes and a very
knowledgeable leader), the next day we spent the same amount of time on
the same trail, saw very few of the birds we had seen the day before, but
saw another 35 - 40 spp!
If you or birding in a rainforest, I am not the least surprised. My one
experience of Costa Rica was as a student on a two-month field course run
by the Organization for Tropical Studies back in 1971. During that time,
we spent two weeks in the rain forest of the Osa Peninsula. I plotted a
graph of the bird species I recorded during that time to see how long it
would take to level off -- that is, to reach a point at which I was no
longer adding new species to my list for the area. In over two weeks, it
never did!
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Ronald I. Orenstein Phone: (905) 820-7886
International Wildlife Coalition Fax/Modem: (905) 569-0116
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