Hello,
This is Christian and Austin Walker reporting for the Bird Diversity Group. We are the sole members of our group, and we're super excited to be heading to the Neotropics tomorrow.
We're planning to study bird diversity with respect to forest type (whether it's original, natural reforested, etc.), and are hoping to be able to use mist-nets in addition to point counts to help us assess bird diversity at Leaves and Lizards.
We've been birding for the past 7 years or so, and we've had experience birding in Central America before - we went to Belize for 10 days in December 2006. Christian is a biology major, and Austin is a Classics major. Christian hopes to go on to graduate school for ornithology to continue with his interest in birds, and Austin wants to get another degree in Classics.
We'll be sure to keep you updated on our unofficial goal of finding 136 species of birds on the property - that's currently how many are on the property list. It's definitely doable, and although we've got zero right now, that'll definitely change tomorrow evening.
Hasta mañana,
-The Walker Bros
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