Field notes, v4195
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Duval, E.H. 2004 Journal Isla Boca Brava, Chiriqui Prov. Panama' 9 April 2004 This morning I saw AW- (DM) SF-1 for a ? on the dp at this year's SBE16. The fact that AWW + AWP are partners at this site really does make me wonder whether the males are phenotype-matching based on color bands. I did a watch in the area to try to verify which male was doing displays for females, but saw nothing much additional. I continued on to do watches at CAS and LOT. Nothing much happened at CAS (VGC is still there), but at LOT I saw an interesting dominance dispute. One male started SF-1 for a ? (VGC, hatched near BIR, I think) and after a long time APA (DM), the apparent (alpha, flew in and evicted the other male to continue displaying for the female himself. Later in the watch, APA was again displaying for a female when the other male flew in with a different DM partner and tried to rip-flight the female back to the second LOT dance perch. I should note that while APA still used the long-flagged perch in the flat area which is visible from the south trail, both he and the other males used a new perch slightly east & uphill, just