When I was young, I stood in a Costa Rican mountain cloud forest, desperately trying to find a resplendent quetzal with its dazzling plumage. Yet, a male bird had been perching in a tree 15 yards away ...
BRATTLEBORO — The Southeastern Vermont Audubon Society will host a special program on The Resplendent Questzal — Tourism and Land Use in Costa Rica, at Brooks Memorial Library next Tuesday, May 20, at ...
NMAI copy 39088019917459 from the library of H. Paul and Jane R. Friesema. Costa Rica lost almost half its forest cover from 1950 to 1990, much of it burned to clear pasture for cattle. In the last ...