UCDTropicalEcology

@RuthFCarden @RIAdawson All the best Ruth! wishing you every happiness with the new adventure. You're a force to be reckoned with and an inspiration 👌🍾

4 yrs into Skunk cabbage control project and results are looking great. Slowly exhausting the seed bank along the River Liffey. Thanks to the funding support of @KildareCoCo & @DeptHousingIRL under Local biodiversity action fund. @UCDSBES @ucdscience

The iconic Red Eyed Tree Frog out on the trails in @BijagualReserve during our night time surveys. Fantastic diversity of frogs on our surveys @UCDSBES @ucdscience

The rainforest at @BijagualReserve is the perfect place for our undergraduate field course @UCDSBES @ucdscience The diversity is unreal. We have to protect places like this!

The camouflage of this insect is outrageous!! Try spot this moss mimic stick insect on this branch. First time our group has seen this in @BijagualReserve during our environmental Biology and Zoology field course @UCDSBES @ucdscience

Lucky to see a diversity of snakes and amphibians on our @UCDSBES field course in @BijagualReserve Costa Rica. Thanks to Rob Gandola @HerpSocIreland for providing a wealth of information to our Environmental Biology and Zoology students. @ucdscience

Plenty of time for our Environmental Biology and Zoology students to document the species encountered while sampling the rainforest in Costa Rica @BijagualReserve.

Our undergraduate students @UCDSBES @ucdscience being shown how to ring birds @BijagualReserve thanks to Paul Foster, Niall Keogh and Jon Willans. The reserve has such a rich diversity of bird species.

Environmental Biology and Zoology students @UCDSBES recording the diversity of invertebrates in @BijagualReserve @ucdscience

Environmental Biology and Zoology @UCDSBES students observing the rich diversity of animals and plants in the rainforest @BijagualReserve. We were watching Spider monkeys traverse the canopy.

Spectacular amount of bird species encountered during our dawn surveys in @BijagualReserve. Worth the early morning wake ups. @UCDSBES @ucdscience

Setting up baited traps to survey the orchid bees in @BijagualReserve. Males collect different scents to present to the female bee. One of many surveying methods taught on our field course @UCDSBES @ucdscience

Our field course with our Environmental Biology and Zoology students in Costa Rica kicked off last week! All anticipating the next 12 days in the forest. @UCDSBES @ucdscience

And just like that.... we're back in Costa Rica! @UCDSBES Tropical Ecology module #2 for 2023. Follow for #RainforestUpdates from @BijagualReserve PURA VIDA! 💚🐸🦎🌿🐢🦥🦇🪲🐛🦂🦋🦗🐌🪻🌴🪺💦💙

@IrelandsEnviro @RuthFCarden Cracking week so far.. top class as usual @RuthFCarden 👌 😁

#IrishCaveBones 1/n May the (Day) 4(th) be with you all! (sorry couldn't help StarWars ref with the day that's in it!). Now, I'm (@RuthFCarden) going to grab mug of tea & I suggest you grab your choice beverage, I don't know how long this will be - a lot of info & Qs to ask.

Unfortunately our trip had to come to an end last week. Going to miss the forest in @BijagualReserve #CostaRica @UCDSBES @ucdscience

Another puma sharing the trails in @BijagualReserve #CostaRica. @UCDSBES @ucdscience

The scented traps are attracting some awesome orchid bees in @BijagualReserve #CostaRica. Males collect the scent with the front legs. @UCDSBES @ucdscience

Tapir caught on our camera trap in @BijagualReserve #CostaRica. Surveys by our zoology & environmental biology students @UCDSBES @ucdscience

The forest keeps on delivering a diversity of animals @BijagualReserve. @UCDSBES @ucdscience