
Rare Costa Rican birds captured, tagged for study for the first time
A rare bird species that has never been adequately studied by science will now have that situation corrected. Scientists trapped three endangered yellow-billed cotingas ( Carpodectes antoniae ) last month, fitted them with tracking devices and released them unharmed back into the Costra Rican wilderness.The researchers used a nearly invisible nylon mist net to capture the birds—one female and two males—near the town of Rincon on Costa Rica's Osa Peninsula...