D A Good 1986 Journal La Cantanara Camp, cont. 2 April surrounded by steep hillsides. The area is pretty badly slashed up, but some fairly decent forest remains on the hillsides - though even this is hardly virgin timber. A small cabin and a thatch-roofed shelter are available for cooking, eating, working, etc. Water is piped in from a nearby spring. Swimming holes abound in the Rio. After dark we sat around for a while talking about potential popular articles about the Zone. Both of the other 2 people already at the camp when we arrived, Hugh Rowell (grasshoppers) and Gary Braasch (professional photographer), were very interested in this. Pam Hall (Tree Society) was also there by evening. From ca. 8:00 to 10:00 pm Craig + I went upstream along the Rio with headlamps and collected a variety of lizards. Federico + Chris did the same downstream. While we were out, I noticed mammal eye shine on the stream ahead - it came closer + closer + got within ca 2m before realizing we were there - an aquatic opossum (genus?). Other good stuff besides lizards (see spp. accounts) were numerous birds (Copendolas, parrots, toucans + various ducky-birds). I haven't had a chance to really get out + look at birds, but here are a few I have seen since entering the Zone: Swallow-tailed Kite Montezuma Oropendola Scarlet-rumped Tanager Long-tailed Tyrant Turkey Vulture - various others - those I just Blue-black grassquit managed to ID in passing. Rough-winged Swallow