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|e orst hour passed quietly. |en another. Normal toucans appeared — beautiful,
common, unremarkable only because expectation had distorted perspective. We
watched them feed, call, move through the trees. Each time wings nashed pale,
attention spiked, then settled again.
We lev the lot mid-day and moved to Cope’s Bird station, where abundance
returned easily. Keel-billed toucans fed openly. Hummingbirds hovered inches
from the lens. Oropendolas worked the canopy theatrically. Glass frogs appeared
again — small, luminous, impossibly fragile.
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Keel-billed toucan.
