A Naturalist Amid Tropical Splendor |
Contents
The Foundations of Tropical Splendor | 1 |
The Birth of Beauty | 14 |
4 | 23 |
Copyright | |
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amid animals appear Bananaquit beauty beneath bill birds Blue-and-White Mockingbird branch breast brood Brown Jays build Calabash tree castlebuilders centimeters close color Costa Rica covered creatures days old dense Donacobius eggs empty nest epiphytes evolution feathers feed feet female fern fledglings flew flowers flycatchers foliage foraging forest frequently fronds fruits Giant Cowbird grass gray green ground hatched head human hummingbirds inches incubation insects leaves less light lings liverworts living world male mammals mate ment meters minutes mockingbirds monogamy morning mother nearly nectar neighboring nest tree nest's nestlings oropendolas ovenbird family pair parents pastures perch plants plumage pollen pollinators pouch predators Purple-crowned Fairy rain rarely Scaly-breasted Scaly-breasted Hummingbirds season shrub side silky-flycatchers sing slender sometimes song species sticks tail tanagers thicket tion tropical ture twigs usually vegetation watched White-tipped Doves White-vented White-vented Euphonia wings