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Rare Costa Rican birds captured, tagged for study for the first time

A rare bird species that has never been adequately studied by science will now have that situation corrected. Scientists trapped three endangered yellow-billed cotingas ( Carpodectes antoniae ) last month, fitted them with tracking devices and released them unharmed back into the Costra Rican wilderness. The researchers used a nearly invisible nylon mist net to capture the birds–one female and two males–near the town of Rincon on Costa Rica’s Osa Peninsula

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Rare Costa Rican birds captured, tagged for study for the first time

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