Costa Rican swift [SEP] parent taxon
Costa Rican swift
The Costa Rican swift ("Chaetura fumosa") is a species of swift in the family Apodidae. It was split from the band-rumped swift, "Chaetura spinacauda", in 1998.
It is found in Colombia, Costa Rica, and Panama with a natural habitat of subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests.
It is blackish and slim-winged with sharply contrasting pale-rump band and distinctly pale throat. It has a sooty black coloration is tinged with glossy blue. Its bill
Odilia Castro Hidalgo
Odilia Castro Hidalgo (1908–1999) was a Costa Rican teacher, communist and feminist. She founded the parent organization which would become the National Association of Educators. Exiled for her communist activities after the Costa Rican Civil War, Castro later returned and founded several social welfare programs. She taught for 32 years and served as a nurse in Costa Rica and Venezuela. Castro was admitted to the Costa Rican National Institute for Women (INAMU)'s Gallery of Women in 2006.
Biography.
María Odilia Castro