The Muñeco Heavy with Fruit

Jorge Alcalá and Michel Salas were walking through the reserve when they stopped before a Muñeco —Cordia collococca— heavy with fruit. The tree, dressed in those small clusters ripening amid the dense green of the forest, stood there offering what it had in silence, as it always has. The find has been logged at the coordinates marking a precise corner of the Fundación Loros's 520 hectares. It is no small detail: when a species enters fruiting season, the fauna knows before anyone else does. The parrots and other frugivorous birds of the reserve find in the Muñeco a resource well worth watching closely. This observation, simple enough on paper, is one more piece of the living map that the field team builds record by record.