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Birds of Belize & Birds of Costa Rica: A Field Guide Review Doubleheader

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Birds of Belize by Steve N. The first is that the illustrations by Dale Dyer are based, and largely seem to be the same, as the illustrations for his previous guide Birds of Central America: Belize, Guatemala, Honduras, El Salvador, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, and Panama (co-authored with Andrew Vallely, PUP, 2018). Why are these issues?

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Visit Guatemala with Birding Expeditions

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Birding Expeditions is a Guatemalan tour company created to help birders to have an unforgettable experience in the Mayan World. Our company is based in Guatemala but also offers tours in Belize, Honduras, El Salvador, and Mexico. We work hard to provide the richest and most rewarding experience of the Neotropics.

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eBird Photo Quizzes: A Great Way to Prepare for a Trip

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In a little less than two weeks my family and I will be enjoying a long weekend on the Yucatan Peninsula of Mexico. Having never birded in Mexico at all I was initially concerned about identifying the myriad species that can be seen.

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They’ve Got an Awful Lot of Birds in Brazil.

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1,712 species, 12% of which are endemics. News flash–I just received the trip report from Carlos, and the tally is 419 species recorded, of which 16 were heard only; plus Ian and I saw an additional species before the tour started, courtesy of Paulo Boute. Oh my gosh! I shouldn’t have been surprised.

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Birding by Volunteering

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Volunteering provides a very different experience to tourism though. In Belize I cruised above reefs few people had ever seen. You may not get the species counts that the race delivers, but you’ll have memories burned into your skull. Ugandan Mangabeys were part of my family once.

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Birds of Central America: A Field Guide Review

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Birds of Central America: Belize, Guatemala, Honduras, El Salvador, Nicaragua, Costa Rican, and Panama , just published in October, is a field guide that was ten years in the making. Covering 1,261 species with data and taxonomy current up to August 2017, the field guide is an exciting achievement. SPECIES ACCOUNTS.

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What is a Catbird?

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Catbirds are not the unfortunate result of unwise experiments with radioactivity. Catbirds are a group of rather distantly related species all named for the fact that they make sounds that remind some of a cat meowing. We can start first with what catbirds are not. They are not flying cats nor birds with whiskers.