Field notes, v4194
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DuVal, E.H. 2000 Journal Isla Boca Brava, Chiriqui Prov., Panama May 2000 Weather: Overcast, mostly still w/ mid-day breeze, ~90 F; no rain. There's so much to do. I don't have an organized system for rotating watches through our perch sites, and I can tell that will be a major fault of the project unless I work it out. The problem is that a rotation requires knowing what I want to get from the data, & I want everything. I need to know the dominance rank of all males, who copulates w/ whom, etc, and we're still having trouble reading band combinations. I know I'll need to take a subset of sites to keep things realistic, but... which? And what good is it to only know dominance in ~10 pairs of males? And while I fret over that, the unfound nests are fledging, BOY's transmitter is going to waste, and we still don't have mama ID's for some-to-fledge nests. Kat and I netted unsuccessfully for BOY until 1000, while Mark did telemetry. We each did 2 behavioral