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“Sometime on the third day,” he wrote, “I could again see rainforest colors and delight in the flight of a basilisk across a stream or the primeval look of a motmot in bamboo.”

In two hours we see more than 30 species, including the spectacular blue-crowned motmot, plus a gang of spider monkeys.

That goal was achieved in May, when the motmot duo hatched three chicks.

Also visible to the eagle-eyed will be the rainbow-hued motmot, the national bird of Nicaragua.

Sure enough, we soon found the excited motmot up in some high branches, fluttering around a Cook’s tree-boa, alerting other birds and blowing the snake’s stealth.