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

10,000 Birds

In 1978 two researchers from Harvard University were impressed by these quetzal-filled cloud forests, published photographs in the United States, and the Chacóns began to host increasing numbers of American birders. Sometime later, it was already dark and I was in a bathroom when Serge knocked at the door: Look out, opossum at the feeder!