Jungle Laboratory: A Visit to Barro Colorado Island

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Summary

The author describes his visit to the Barro Colorado Island, also known as the Canal Zone Biological Area, an island and Smithsonian research station in the Panama Canal watershed. It is now known as the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute (STRI). He describes both the facilities and scientists at the laboratory and his experiences looking for birds on the island trails.

Subject

  • Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute (STRI)
  • Barro Colorado Island Biological Laboratory

Category

Smithsonian Institution History Bibliography

Notes

There are no page numbers on the reprint.

Contained within

Turtox News Vol. 34, No. 8 (Contained within)

Contact information

Institutional History Division, Smithsonian Institution Archives, 600 Maryland Avenue, S.W., Washington, D.C. 20024-2520, SIHistory@si.edu

Date

August, 1956

Topic

  • Rain forest ecology
  • Animals
  • Field Stations
  • Birds
  • Indians of Central America
  • Ornithology

Place

  • Barro Colorado Nature Monument (Panama)
  • Panama
  • Barro Colorado Island (Panama)

Physical description

9 pp

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