Santa Rosa National Park is in the province of Guanacaste, Costa Rica. It is the main biological research station serving a biodiversity project run by Dan Janzen & Winnie Hallwachs, now in its 26th year. The main aim is to catalogue the amazing diversity of butterflies and moths (mariposas), their caterpillars, food plants and parasitoids. There are more species of butterfly in this single province of Costa Rica than in the whole of North America. I am here as a volunteer and I will help to collect and rear the caterpillars, but will be based at a more remote station within the province, San Gerardo.
Santa Rosa is hot and dry. My first bird sighting was the impressive white-throated magpie jay. There were also some agoutis hanging around the dining hall. Here is a picture of the littler one of them (in case you are bored).
Santa Rosa is hot and dry. My first bird sighting was the impressive white-throated magpie jay. There were also some agoutis hanging around the dining hall. Here is a picture of the littler one of them (in case you are bored).
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