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Duval,
E.H.
2004
Journal
Isla Boca Brava, Chiriqui Prov., Panama
2 April 2004
I started the day by [illegible] bleeding the
chicks in nest E-3 in a gully East of OCV.
As I finished bleeding the second chick,
BOV (scre) mobbed me aggressively. During
a watch at EDM I noticed a flock of
Down-whistling females mobbing a
Mangrove Cuckoo near nest E-6. I've seen
many mangrove cuckoos lately, and they
forage low in the vegetation - they could
be significant nest predators. I watched
an unbanded green-plumage female construct
a nest in the early stage, at EDM -
she was breaking off chunks of leaf
and then dropping them, about 15 feet
from her nest site. She eventually
settled on a chunk slightly smaller
than her head. She flew to her
nest fork (which I hadn't noticed
before) and "tested" it, squatting
in the fork with both feet clutching
one of the branches. She then
dropped the leaf chunk in the
fork where it hung in spider webs
which she had already arranged.
She "tested" the site again, and the
leaf piece fell to the ground.