Costa Rica Camera Trap Records Birds Far Beyond Their Expected Range
It’s safe to say I probably like camera trapping a little too much. My work is dedicated to that one activity. My social media feeds almost exclusively show me content from other camera trap aficionados like me. Heck, I even dream about reviewing camera traps. The part of camera trapping that has really hooked me is the fact that you never know what you’re going to get every time you start scrolling though the videos on an SD card. Exceptional videos come in a few different flavors. Sometimes the video features an extremely rare species. It doesn’t even matter what the individual happens to be doing in the video, the fact that it was recorded at all is reason enough to celebrate. Other times the animal itself isn’t especially remarkable, but it happened to be doing an interesting behavior as it passed the few square meters one of my cameras is monitoring. Yet another category of awesomeness is when I hit play on a video and the first thing I think is, ‘Hey! You’re not supposed to be ...