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Vision Visits Panama: The Quest for a Quetzal

Discussion in 'Panama' started by Vision, 18 Aug 2019.

  1. Vision

    Vision Well-Known Member 5+ year member

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    Sorry for not getting back to you earlier about this! I've finally compiled a list of El Nispero's native species. This is just going off of memory and a few pictures I have, but should provide a fairly accurate idea of their general collection. :)

    Jaguar
    Ocelot
    Tayra
    Coyote
    Grey fox
    Northern raccoon
    Crab-eating raccoon
    Black spider monkey
    White-faced capuchin monkey
    Geoffroy's tamarin
    Central American agouti
    Baird's tapir

    Great tinamou
    Great curassow
    Muscovy duck
    Black-bellied whistling-duck
    Common ground dove
    Ruddy ground dove
    Blue ground dove
    White-tipped dove
    Pale-vented pigeon
    Scaled pigeon
    Band-tailed pigeon
    Grey-necked wood rail
    Wood stork
    Common black hawk
    Savanna hawk
    White hawk
    Short-tailed hawk
    Grey-lined hawk
    Keel-billed toucan
    Yellow-throated toucan
    Scarlet macaw
    Great green macaw
    Blue-and-yellow macaw
    Painted parakeet
    Blue-headed parrot
    Red-lored amazon
    Mealy amazon
    Yellow-crowned amazon
    Northern crested caracara
    Collared forest falcon

    Pond slider
    Green iguana
    American crocodile

    I've also been able to find pictures of American barn owl, Lowland paca and (probably Panamanian?) Night monkey on google, but I didn't see these three species at the zoo so they are presumably no longer present on-show. Hope this helps!
     
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  2. drill

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    Photo Ark has El Nispero pictures with Panamanian night monkey, Striped owl, Crested guan, Ruddy quail-dove, Bare-throated tiger heron, Hoffmann's conure, Red-crowned conure, and Crimson-fronted conure
     
  3. Vision

    Vision Well-Known Member 5+ year member

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    Interesting! A lot of species in there that I've never seen before, and that were definitely not present on-show during my visit - I might have missed one of the conures but the others definitely weren't signed/exhibited anymore.
     
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    I don't know the year those pictures were taken and they might be behnd the scenes.
     
  5. Chlidonias

    Chlidonias Moderator Staff Member 15+ year member

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    Satore's photos never being dated is always an annoying feature, especially because he randomly puts out individual photos as if they were new (e.g. one of a night monkey from Nispero on his Twitter in 2018). The earliest articles/references I see for his photos from Nispero are from 2016.
     
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  6. Vision

    Vision Well-Known Member 5+ year member

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    Just like for Vietnam, I've spent a bit of time uploading a few pictures from Panama! I haven't had time to upload everything yet, but I've done everything until day 8, which accounts for almost half of the pictures in total. Sorry for the long wait! :)
     
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    Chlidonias Moderator Staff Member 15+ year member

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    Your Central American Agouti and Variegated Squirrel photos have been added into the rodent photographic guide (part one) as they were "new" subspecies.
     
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    Vision Well-Known Member 5+ year member

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    I've now uploaded the rest of the pics!
     
  9. TeaLovingDave

    TeaLovingDave Moderator Staff Member 10+ year member

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    When I have a chance I shall have to go through them all to find all the photographic gaps you have filled for other threads :p offhand I think I can spot a few already.
     
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  10. AWP

    AWP Well-Known Member 5+ year member

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    The subspecies in central Panama isn't the same as the subspecies in Costa Rica? I didn't know that, otherwise I would have provided a photo of that subspecies months ago... What are the distributions of the different subspecies in Costa Rica and Panama?
     
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    Chlidonias Moderator Staff Member 15+ year member

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    geomorph Well-Known Member 10+ year member Premium Member

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    Thank you for this thorough and well-organized report of your adventure!
     
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