The New Neotropical Companion
Plate 12- 35. The Yellow- billed Tern in the foreground is markedly smaller than the Large- billed Tern standing behind it on th ...
river travel. From a boat lazily moving downriver you can watch three and occasionally four species of vultures soaring overhead ...
Some Other Birds of Riverbanks, Sandbars, and Marshes You will likely see a wide variety of bird species on any Neotropical wetl ...
Herons and Ibises River edges and marshes support a diversity of wading birds of the families Ardeidae (herons and egrets) and T ...
(Pandion haliaetus), which winters in Amazonia and is a permanent resident throughout much of Central America and the Caribbean, ...
head. Its plumage is a combination of soft browns, with rich buff on breast and wings. Hoatzins are weak fliers, a feature that ...
The Sunbittern Stalking along quiet riverbanks on bright red legs, the Sunbittern (Eurypyga helias; plate 12- 56) hunts fish, am ...
much of Amazonia. Nearly the size of a turkey (which it vaguely resembles), it is a shiny black bird with thick legs, large unwe ...
Amazonian Fish Diversity There are more than 2,400 species of fish known to inhabit the waters of the Amazon and its tributaries ...
Among the more unusual piscine species is the South American Lungfish (Lepidosiren paradoxa). This eel- like fish with large sca ...
to- nitrogen ratio declines, because more nitrogen is added by the decomposer community. Small fish and invertebrates feed on th ...
less exposed areas than Reds, but are able to thrive in oxygen- starved sediment. They are bushy- topped trees that can reach he ...
How a Mangrove Cay Develops A careful look at the pattern of coastal mangrove species distribution in a mangrove cay suggests zo ...
The Coconut Palm Perhaps the most iconic of coastal tropical plants is the Coconut Palm (Cocos nucifera; plate 12- 70). Some of ...
Plate 13- 1. The Andes Mountains, viewed from Tierra del Fuego, at the southern tip of South America. Photo by John Kricher. Pla ...
Montane (Mountain) Forests When visiting the Neotropics make sure you include a segment in the magnificent Andes Mountains. Don’ ...
which, if elevation is sufficiently high, transition to elfin forests, páramo, or puna, depending on elevation and exposure. The ...
forest occurs above 1,500 m (4,920 ft) on the Pacific slope but extends to between 1,300 and 1,400 m (4,265– 4,590 ft) along the ...
Plate 13- 9. The Long- whiskered Owlet (Xenoglaux loweryi) was first described in 1977. It occurs in cloud forests at elevations ...
A total of 3,021 plant species, including 755 tree species, have been identified in the Monteverde forest. The most species- ric ...
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