El Salvador field notes, v4515
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human wail and found it to be one of the same hawks I got yesterday. This bird certainly was looking differently. It also gave a Hooked Hawk Cache. This was also a female - eating mammals of some sort. Mine had eaten a large lizard. We noticed that the mot mots have a most peculiar rubbery looking tongue with feathery projections along the side. All of the motmots so far I believe have been males - rather a coincidence. We visited the ground Doves nest and found two eggs. When B shot the bird I got instead a squab that was sitting beside her. The other squab was near by in the bushes. The parents were very wary and Betto I tried several times I could not get the bird, and so left the set. While out in the