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Casa Tangara dowii, Costa Rica: to claim our feathery gold

10,000 Birds

“In the 1960s, Efraín Chacón constructed a dirt trail [from San Gerardo de Dota] to the Pan-American Highway, and brought his family to build a house, to farm and fish for trout. Sometime later, it was already dark and I was in a bathroom when Serge knocked at the door: Look out, opossum at the feeder!