Field notes, v4228
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Photo, Dear 2012 Journal Finca Magnolia Miramar, Volcan Tacanar, Dept. Quetzaltenango, Guatemala Jan. 11 I arrived in Guatemala City the morning of Jan 10 w/ Carla Ciceri, Olga Sanchez, and Elise Freitas. Met up w/ Ted Paperfuse (arrived day before), Carlos Nasquez + Sergio Perez. Spent time packing at museum; I was sick + didn't help much. Stefanie Ortega joined us and we left town, picking up Jose Alejandro Nicole Paul on the way. Took us forever to leave the city + encountered a major traffic jam, got to our destination, a large coffee finca below the forest on Volcan Tacanar, around 10:30. Nite setup - 3 bedrooms + lots of space to work. This morning, took forever to get organized. Three guides went w/ us to the forest. Drove 40 min uphill + parked in cafetal, then walked ~25 min through cafetal and planted pine forest. Everyone but me + other students (plus our guide) took another trail and we waited ~30 min for them to rejoin us. Bird + mammal teams decided the forest was too far and decided to go to a closer forest on another finca. Carlos, Ted, and I left then and walked uphill, quickly entering some secondary forest and then some decent (although disturbed) primary broadleaf forest w/ lots of learners. Tree diversity of trees seemed low, or at least many trees looked very similar. Forest was fairly open, and leaf litter was quite dry. Started looking at 11:40 and stopped at 16:00. I looked in a number of logs but found nothing; even in logs it wasn't too wet. We found 5 Prangster of two species (C[illegible] + other one), 5 were out + 1 was under a piece of wood. We also got 2 Andis + I saw a third that escaped into a tree. We opened 30-40 small to medium-sized bromeliads + got 5 Brothersona engelhardtii, two of which were in the same bromeliad. Bromeliads had some water in them but seemed good; was surprised to not see more