Ed, They remind me of our little Spring Peeper tree frogs.
JP On Mar 31, 4:43 pm, "Edward Frank" <[email protected]> wrote: > James, > > A coqui is a small frog - an official symbol of Puerto Rico. > > http://www.elboricua.com/coqui.html > > Ed > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "James Parton" <[email protected]> > To: "ENTSTrees" <[email protected]> > Sent: Tuesday, March 31, 2009 3:42 PM > Subject: [ENTS] Re: El Yunque National Forest, Puerto Rico > > Neil, > > Do you have any pictures taken there? They would be interesting to > see. > > What is a coqui? An insect I presume? > > James P. > > On Mar 30, 7:41 am, neil <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi James, > > > I spent a month and a half at El Verde, the research station in the El > > Yunque National Forest. I had just finished my undegrad degree and was > > assisting two Ph.D. students with their fieldwork. One student was > > studying crayfish populations [literally tag & recapture] while the > > other was modeling recovery from Hurricane Hugo. They had set up the > > Big Grid, a large permanent plot to study forest response to > > disturbance. > > > We went all over the island that summer and climbed El Yunque. Many > > fun times. The things I remember best were the ripe mangoes in the > > forest, a stream side tree that produced a small fruit with thin, > > crispy & slightly sweet flesh like a pear, but smelled like perfume, > > and the large leaves of the pioneer tree species, Cecropia. And, if a > > coqui got into the kitchen or your bunk room, you would almost go deaf > > from its call until you released it back into the wild. > > > PR and the forest is pretty cool. > > > neil > > > On Mar 29, 3:50 pm, James Parton <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > ENTS, > > > > I was surprised to find a tropical rainforest in the US national > > > forest system. I would have thought if we would have had one anywhere > > > it would have been in Hawaii. They might have a state forest though. > > > > Has anyone ever visited El Yunque in Puerto Rico? > > > >http://www.fs.fed.us/r8/caribbean/ > > > >http://www.fs.fed.us/r8/caribbean/about/index.shtml > > > >http://www.solboricua.com/elyunque/ > > > >http://www.fs.fed.us/r8/caribbean/natural-resources/index.shtml > > > >http://www.topuertorico.org/reference/yunque.shtml > > > > James Parton- Hide quoted text - > > - Show quoted text - --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ Eastern Native Tree Society http://www.nativetreesociety.org Send email to [email protected] Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/entstrees?hl=en To unsubscribe send email to [email protected] -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
