By Brooke Bessesen www.brookebessesen.com Morning breaks, an explosion of pastel paints splashing up from the dark horizon. Within minutes low-slung clouds are trimmed in gold leaf and violet water licks the beach. Manuel and I have just arrived at the shore, emerged from the dense green understory in perfect time to catch this glorious sunrise. [...]
Archive for July, 2010
The Blue-crowned Motmots (Momotus momota) have been spending a lot of time around a Nance tree (Byrsonima crassifolia), a prolific fruit producing tree in the garden here at Friends of the Osa’s Osa Biodiversity Center. Lately there have been quite a few hanging around giving their distinctive soft low pitch “moot moot” call at dawn [...]
By Brooke Bessesen www.brookebessesen.com It’s the middle of the night and we walk in silence. Headlamps are off; our eyes have adjusted to the darkness. To the left, the rainforest silhouette rises to meet a star-studded horizon. On the right, the Pacific Ocean stretches like a rough floor waxed with moonshine. I am mesmerized by [...]
We’re excited to announce that we’ve officially kicked off our 2010 Sea Turtle Conservation Program on the Osa Peninsula in Costa Rica, Central America. This year we are expanding the program to cover Matapalo to Carate, a total of 18 km of patrolling to protect endangered sea turtles. In previous years, our program covered the [...]
In the months of January and February this year, Friends of the Osa hosted Brooke Bessesen to conduct an important baseline survey of the marine fauna that inhabit the Golfo Dulce. The project was funded by a Greg Gund Memorial Fellowship. Because the gulf is actually a tropical fjord, one of only four in the [...]
This week’s bird, the Violaceous Trogon (Trogon violaceus) jumped out at me (not literally) as I was having my morning coffee on my front porch here at Friends of the Osa’s Osa Biodiversity Center on Cerro Osa. I was watching all the typical dawn action, mainly the Tropical Kingbirds and Gray-capped Flycatchers being overly vociferous [...]
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