DuVal, E.H. 2005 Journal Isla Boca Brava, Chiriqui, Panama 18 Apr. still worried about the high rate of nest failure after I catch these unbanded females. I checked E-28 (the only female I catched yesterday) and the chick was cold and begging strongly. I fed him 4-5 ripe Miconia berries, and did the same for E-25. E-50 was warm and not hungry, though it had been several hours since I caught his mom - she seemed especially alert when I released her, so it seems that she was unphased by ordeal. When the rain started, Steve and I came home to work on data for the rest of the afternoon. Anne again won the toughness award and stayed out longer than us. At 6:30 pm, I decided to go check E-28 again, with the idea that the mother would have brooded him during the hard rain and fed him then: if she hadn't abandoned, I should find a warm, dry, satiated chick. Instead, the chick was cold and wet, and begged strongly. So I took him home to serve as our pilot chick for determining whether it would be feasible to raise young males in captivity for experiments on learning. I placed him in one of our old nests (collected for the pending