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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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Birding Belizean Jungle

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Sure, I had seen countless television program, sat glued to Planet Earth, and read accounts of research ecologists and explorers, but I had never seen the wonders of a hot and wet climate. Belize gave me my first opportunity to see the jungle for myself, as well as its avian treasures! Scarlet Macaws in flight.

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Black-necked Stilts at Guana Tolomato Matanzas National Estuarine Research Reserve

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For day 2 of the conference, we headed out to the Guana Tolomato Matanzas National Estuarine Research Reserve to look at some in-progress projects. ” Though I have seen stilts in Aruba and Belize, I had yet to add them to my American list, making me extra happy to see them.

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Fall Hawk Migration Hotspots

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Super Hot-spot: Toledo District, Belize – Central Flyway. Super Hot-spot: Toledo District, Belize – Central Flyway. Fall count to date: 3,895. Super Hot-spot: Little Crawl Key, FL – Atlantic Flyway. Fall count to date: 1,402. Crested Caracara. Photo by © Michael Todd. Fall count to date: unknown. Peregrine Falcon. Swallow-tailed Kite.

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Our Favorite Bird Books of 2023

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We’ve gotten them all—field guides to foreign countries; memoirs and big year books; narratives about ornithological research, then and now; identification guides on terns and flycatchers; birding guides to birdy areas of northern North America (Ontario and Minnesota); books about owls and penguins; and more. Howell and Dale Dyer.

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How to Help Cerulean Warblers, Other Migrant Species, and Resident Birds in Costa Rica

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With that in mind, Ernesto and fellow researchers are working on figuring out which plant species might be most important for Ceruleans and other migrants so areas in and near Las Brisas can be more efficiently recuperated and restored. — Feature image of Cerulean Warbler and researchers at Las Brisas Reserve by Paz Irola.

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Dawn in South Carolina

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At dawn, my feet hit one of the protected beaches with Wendy Allen, the manager of the North Inlet-Winyah Bay National Estuarine Research Reserve, one of the science and outreach organizations working within Hobcaw. She also had amazing stories of birding in Belize and Costa Rica, and we swapped favorite birding tales during the 2.5