Duval, E.H. 2005 Journal Isla Boca Brava, Chiriqui, Panama guess I thought I hadn't written about this day... 15 April 2005- I spent today and yesterday catching unbanded females at their nests. Today I only caught two new females, though one included three "bycatch" manakins in the same net, and for the other I caught two possible females by the same nest at the same time. We're unfortunately seeing a particularly high rate of nest abandonment after I catch the females this year. Today Steve alerted me to a nest of too-hungry chicks whose mother was targeted yesterday. He saw them at ~11:15 am, and by the time I checked them at 14:00, they were both dead. But. There seems to be no good option for sampling those females otherwise, and so I have to continue netting them. The only other solution would be to revamp the site-wide mist-netting, and that's not a great option with 10 nests of known unbanded moms present in the same week! In nest E-35, there was a 4-day-old chick and an egg - in the suspicion that it wouldn't hatch, I took the egg to the incubator - at least we'll be able to sample it.