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A few months ago, I was preparing to take a group of people out on a tour to review camera traps. As I fiddled with my backpack and waited for the guests to gather, a middle-aged gentleman greeted me. I thought he was there for the tour, but it turned out he was a professional photographer taking some time after a nearby gig to photograph wildlife in the protected area where I have my cameras. We chatted for a while and when I asked if he’d seen anything interesting, he told me that the previous day he was on one of the trails focused on taking a picture of a spiderweb and when he turned around, there was a jaguar looking at him from down the trail. Now I’m not proud of this, but my immediate, internal reaction was jealousy. This guy spends all of two days in the forest where I’ve dedicated tons of my own time and he gets to see a jaguar and I don’t? Then he went on to explain his theory… that he felt the sighting had been earned by him spending day after day of his life attempting t...

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Puriscal is one of Costa Rica’s best-kept birdwatching secrets a rugged, forested area in the province of San José that sits at around 945 meters on the Pacific slope, close enough to the capital to reach in an hour yet wild enough to feel like a completely different world. Most birders bypass it on their way to Monteverde or Tortuguero, which means those who do make the journey find themselves sharing the trails with almost no one else, a rarity in a country where ecotourism has grown enormously. The heart of birdwatching in Puriscal is La Cangreja National Park, a 2,570-hectare protected area established primarily to shelter birds, and especially the large numbers of migratory species that pass through in fall and spring. The park’s name comes from Cerro La Cangreja, a peak at 1,305 meters whose shape, according to indigenous legend, resembles a giant crab. Its terrain descends dramatically from that summit down to humid river valleys at around 300 meters, and that elevation gradie...

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Zurich University in Switzerland invites application for vacant PhD Positions, located in the city of Zürich, is the