DuVal E.H. 2000 Journal Isla Boca Brava Chiriqui Prov, Panama 25 Apr ena My present concerns about the research are: our measurements do not seem to be consistent enough between days + observers to be truly reliable. It's a little late to worry about this 234 birds into the project, but I'm worrying anyway. "Skull-to- tip" seems particularly unrepeatable, but even important standards like tarsus are often more than a little off. I guess I need to pull out one of the specimens + have us re-train. April 2000 weather: sunny & clear, cloudy in afternoon, but no rain. Still & hot at night. Kat had some problems with the telemetry equipment today - she says that for a while she couldn't even get the static from the "gain" that's the minimum of functioning equipment. It started working again when I looked at it, it was fine in the afternoon. We did observations otherwise, & teamed up to all observe at Bee tree simultaneously,