Osa Peninsula Chronicles

Last month I shared with you the total data for in situ nests, nest predation and false crawls for the month of July, and mentioned that these data were not adjusted for sampling effort. By sampling effort, I mean the amount of time and / or distance that was invested on each beach to get the [...]

Not only does the White-whiskered Puffbird (Malacoptila panamensis) rank pretty high on the cuteness scale, it is also an interesting species from an ecological perspective.  Puffbirds are most closely related to jacamars, toucans and woodpeckers.  They are primarily insect and arthropod eaters and are considered to be flycatching birds along with tyrant flycatchers, and nunbirds.  [...]

Friends of the Osa has a handful of upcoming conservation trips with spaces available.  Read more here or go to the Conservation Trips page on our website. Osa Peninsula Christmas Birding Tour Osa Christmas Bird Count 2011 Conservation Birding Trips Osa Peninsula Christmas Birding Tour December 12 – 18, 2010 Spend 5 days/6 nights in one [...]

This is a hilarious video taken at the Greg Gund Conservation Center at Cerro Osa.  The kung-fu style fight scene starts at 37 seconds!  Check it out and pass it along to your friends.

The Costa Rican Ornithological Union’s second annual conference was held July 28 – 30th 2010 in the school of biology at the University of Costa Rica in the capital of San Jose.  The conference was dedicated to Daniel Janzen and his pioneering work in the field of conservation and reforestation in Costa Rica over the [...]

Friends of the Osa’s Environmental Education program is carrying out educational activities on the conservation of sea turtles and marine ecosystems in the schools of the Osa Peninsula. The objectives are for students to learn the importance of sea turtle conservation, why Golfo Dulce is a tropical fjord, and the ecological and scientific implications of [...]