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A Rainbow Beak
This toucan has just awakened from sleep in the night in the rainforest of Monteverde. I see them down here in Uvita, on the southern coast of Costa Rica where I live as well. This beauty is a rainbow beaked toucan for obvious reasons. Toucans are simply neat, are they not? Something about those great beaks appeals to us. Is it the wonderous splash of color? The unexpected view of a beak so large on a not-so-large creature? If you cover up the beak with a couple of fingers, you can get a sense of the beak you expect to be located on that little head. In fact now that I look at his head, I wonder how he even holds up that huge beak. I saw this bird on a night tour. My guide knew where to bring us because the bird and a few of his buddies always return to these same trees to roost. I on the other hand am quite comfortable far from home so long as when I arise, I can go exploring. When I was in Hawaii just recently for the retirement party of a friend, a few of her relatives were anxious to get back home, being, they explained, homebodies at heart. Anxious to go home from Hawaii. I can't fathom it.
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