Moments of discovery : natural history narratives from Mexico and Central America / edited by Kevin Winker.

Gainesville : University Press of Florida, [2010], ©2010.

xiii, 401 pages : illustrations, map ; 25 cm

In search of the Horned Guan / Miguel Alvarez del Toro -- From rain forest to cloud forest in Mexico, Guatemala, and Costa Rica / Robert F. Andrle -- Studying birds in the Sonoran Desert / John M. Bates -- Back roads with Ben / Lula C. Coffey -- A collecting expedition to the Isthmus of Tehuantepec / Walter W. Dalquest -- Some Mexican experiences / Robert W. Dickerman -- Sabbatical trip to Panama, 1970 / Stephen E. Eaton -- My early Mexican travels / Ernest P. Edwards -- Adventure is where you find it / John T. Emlen, Jr. -- An ornithological expedition to the lowland tropical rain forest of the Sierra de Los Tuxtlas, Southern Veracruz, Mexico / Paul D. Haemig -- The Rancho del Cielo / Joyce Heck -- Bird specimens collected at Lake Olomega, El Salvador / Joe T. Marshall, Jr. -- Green mansions of Tamaulipas / Paul S. Martin -- A Kekchi odyssey / Don Owen-Lewis -- Civil war and rain forests in the Chimalapas / A. Townsend Peterson -- Lost in the Tuxtlas / John H. Rappole -- Six trips to Mexico, 1939-1950 / Charles G. Sibley -- Fifteen years of studying birds in El Salvador, 1966-1980 / Walter A. Thurber -- Recollections of Mexico: people and places / Dwain W. Warner -- Studying the birds of Los Tuxlas / Kevin Winker.

Includes bibliographical references and index.