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Puerto, Sean
2008
Journal
Jan. 5 Sierra Negra Norte, Sierra de Cural, Puerto Chical, Guatemala (cont.)
Heliconia. I think that we could find a lot here with more time. We worked our way back up to the house, arriving at 21:30; I found another male B. d. lintoni and a Pteropus capito, both on vegetation. It rained lightly while we searched. Jed went to bed while the rest of us made dinner and took chiropteran swabs. Carlos and I went back out to search along the creek from 01:00-02:15. It was raining harder, and I found a Gracupator in front of the house and a beautiful P. soratin on a palm along the stream. We went to bed exhausted and soaked around 3AM.
Jan. 7 Mountains west of San Pedro Ayula, Puerto Cortes, Honduras
We woke up at 06:30 yesterday, prepared all the specimens and drove down to Morales. The road was somewhat more washed out and we had to fill in some ditches and make some stone reinforcements - it took a long time to get down. With less rain, the extent of deforestation along the road way more apparent - this place looks like it's in trouble. We dropped Carlos and Austero off at the bus station and then crossed the border west of Puerto Barrion and spent the night in San Pedro Ayula. Today, we drove up to the same area we worked in September in the Sierra de Oma, W of the city. We started opening branchiads at 11:00 at a spot 13.7 km (by road) from the Hospital General, and I immediately found an adult Gymnotis rosalia on a branch under a branchiad I pulled off.