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The Arenal Observatory Lodge & Spa in La Fortuna de San Carlos, Costa Rica has a rich history as a birding-friendly eco-lodge. These researchers preferred this property for their research due to its close proximity to the Arenal Volcano and resplendent natural environment.

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SEPTEMBER 1, 2020

A logical and outstanding successor to The Genius of Birds (2016), Ackerman’s award-winning book about bird cognition, The Bird Way explores the diversity of bird behavior, the norm and the extremes, with an emphasis on cutting-edge research and findings that explode assumptions. Yet, the research projects are never the whole story.

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DECEMBER 29, 2022

In 1978 two researchers from Harvard University were impressed by these quetzal-filled cloud forests, published photographs in the United States, and the Chacóns began to host increasing numbers of American birders. ‘If They became accustomed to feeding the visiting fishermen, and in 1971 they built a small cabin for guests.

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AUGUST 6, 2015

Though researchers who mind eBird data will no doubt benefit from these data.) Such as Chomes, Costa Rica, photographed above by Patrick O’Donnell). It’s part of World Shorebirds Day (celebrated annually Sep. 6), which raises awareness of the perils threatening shorebirds and the need to protect them and their habitats.

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JULY 27, 2013

It was on the island of Trinidad, at the Aripo Agricultural Research Station, where all of these photographs were taken. You can also find Red-breasted Blackbirds in Costa Rica and Panama and south to Peru and Brazil. Birds Aripo Agricultural Research Station blackbirds meadowlarks Red-breasted Blackbird Trinidad and Tobago'

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AUGUST 6, 2016

Not really, but every post about birds in Costa Rica should have at least one picture of a colorful bird. During the 90s, an encounter with this species in Costa Rica wouldn’t have been a surprise at all. Looking for a research project? They checked out the forks of trees. They checked under branches.

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NOVEMBER 2, 2021

He also believes that we are living in an era of incredible scientific research, one in which new genetic technology and findings from diverse scientific disciplines have turned assumptions upside down, opened up new lines of thought, and provided answers, or at least probable answers, to many of our questions about why birds do the things they do.

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AUGUST 20, 2015

I am thinking of a relatively stable/prosperous bird-paradise where one may be able to find a job in ecotourism or wildlife research… or, to begin with, as a resident environmental scientist / nature blogger in some wildlife lodge? Costa Rica (857 / 903). India (1180 / 1171). Sri Lanka (375 / 436). The Afrotropics.

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FEBRUARY 9, 2012

My friend Erik Johnson and I recently visited the home of Dr. Jeff Harris — a birder and research entomologist — who has up to six different species visiting his feeders each day this season. Ringer Volcano Hummingbird , Selasphorus flammula , in Costa Rica © David J. © David J.

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OCTOBER 10, 2017

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

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MAY 6, 2016

There was only a Beardless-Tyrannulet (or Flycatcher) until someone noticed that Costa Rica contained two similar but distinct, non-interbreeding populations of the birds. At any rate, the Northern Beardless-Tyrannulet seems to get by fine without them. Which brings us to Northern. There is no great mystery here.

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MAY 16, 2015

Although I could have spent a morning birding at one of my favorite sites in Costa Rica, I couldn’t just settle for that. Rufous-winged Woodpecker – one of the many forest-based birds in Costa Rica. ” : Shorebirds play a crucial role on Big Days in Costa Rica. Never heard of Pocosol?

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JULY 4, 2017

The accounts vary in length from two to six pages, and are well illustrated with photographic images by Ryan Phillips of the Belize Raptor Research Institute and a group of 40 photographers from the United States and Central America. The Species Accounts are the research-at-home section. Its organization can be challenging.

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AUGUST 11, 2011

Oh yes, change is a-comin’ Crimson-fronted Parakeet ( Aratinga finschi ), Moravia, Costa Rica © David J. The SACC will have to determine whether they believe there’s strong enough evidence to make these changes now, or whether to wait for additional published research before making such significant sequence changes.

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OCTOBER 24, 2018

Most of the time, I know enough about an area, or have done some research into what is found there, that I am pleasantly surprised at best. In about 10 days, we leave for our last (at least up to now) out of the US trip, with 21 days scheduled in Costa Rica. Not so with our visit to Bosque de Apache NWR in southern New Mexico.

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JULY 6, 2021

His guides include our own Patrick O’Donnell, who leads Dunn on a quest to see as many hummingbird species as possible across Costa Rica in just two days, an adventure described in his 2015 post “ A Hummingbird Quest in Costa Rica.”) Is all that material on Selkirk needed?

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MAY 28, 2016

Witnessing the Champions of the Flyway race, seeing social media coverage of the World Series of Birding, participating in the Global Big Day, and doing my own on April 24th has got me thinking about strategies for better Big Days in Costa Rica. They got all three potoo species in Costa Rica. Targets or habitat?

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MARCH 31, 2011

Buffy-crowned Wood-Partridge in Costa Rica (C) a cacophonous. Even better, US college alums should research the test scores their alma maters currently ask for from prospective students; rampant competition at every tier has turned last generation’s safety schools to this year’s reach schools.

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DECEMBER 31, 2012

Tommy Thompson Park Bird Research Station in Toronto had an extremely rare and beautiful Townsend’s Warbler x Black-throated Gray Warbler which was banded in April. 2012 was one of my best years for birding in Costa Rica. I even managed to shoot a video with hands trembling of excitement, probably a first of the species.

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AUGUST 6, 2019

Clearly, author Phyllis Limbacher Tildes, the author of 24, soon to be 25, children’s books, is also a birder (and a little research brings up a presentation she gave at Ogeechee Audubon, Georgia with the biographical information and she and her family “love watching birds and wildlife seen near their lagoon on Skidaway Island.”

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APRIL 25, 2019

But first, not thinking of proper research, I made no difference between questions, nor were the mentioned destinations really visited or only dreamed about. 21%: Costa Rica. 21%: Costa Rica. The number of answers (89) and respondents (about 71, if I counted them correctly) surprised me, as well as some answers.

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DECEMBER 15, 2014

When the proprietors of Costa Rica’s Finca Luna Nueva Lodge graciously invited Corey and me to visit, we were both thrilled at the prospect of awesome Costa Rican birds at an amazing ecolodge. And umbrellas too… early December in Costa Rica’s Caribbean lowlands is very, very wet.

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NOVEMBER 6, 2018

The Bibliography lists 677 articles and books, mostly articles, from ornithological literature, a record of the research that went into this volume. First of all, there are the classics, cited in the Introduction as important resources and models for the authors: A Guide to the Birds of Costa Rica by Gary Stiles and Alexander F.

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OCTOBER 5, 2021

Some odonates (dragonflies and damselflies) are included in Costa Rica nature guides, but there are hundreds of these beautiful creatures flying around the diverse habitats of Costa Rican and there has not been a guide devoted just to them till now. Still, I have been stuck trying to identify a dragonfly I photographed in 2010.

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NOVEMBER 6, 2012

Early issues of The Auk and The Condor, the ornithological bulletin of the Cooper Ornithological Club, are available free online through SORA (Searchable Ornithological Research Archive) and copies of Ornithologist and Oologist are available free through Google Books.

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DECEMBER 26, 2018

When I was doing some very quick, last minute research on the area, a photo of the beautiful Pied-imperial Pigeon popped up on one of the eBird.org pages. One of the more common birds when we were in Costa Rica, the Bananaquit popped up in a couple of the locations we birded while in the Bahamas. eBird Submissions – 429.

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MAY 3, 2012

Press in 2009), active participation in the Dragonfly Society of the Americas and leading dragonfly trips to Costa Rica and, hopefully this summer, Panama. I know from experience how accessible Dennis is, last year he helped me identify a damselfly I photographed in Costa Rica (Argia anceps, no common name).

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MARCH 15, 2011

While studying, he also worked on various conservation/research projects (parrots, wagtails, vultures, and anything else that flew) and ringed thousands of birds. Dale studied scarlet macaws, and worked in their conservation, for three years in southern Costa Rica, followed by a year in the Caribbean working on Whale Sharks.

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MARCH 12, 2011

My first tropical birding trip was to Costa Rica when I was 8 and the Jabiru was at the top of my list even then, but sadly none were encountered. It seemed like a really fun way to spend the day! John Marvin has had a near lifelong wish to see a Jabiru. The Brazilian bird I would most like to see is the Jabiru.

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DECEMBER 12, 2015

Although this tradition started in the temperate zone, we also celebrate it in Costa Rica with counts that are more like organized events featuring vendors, talks, sponsors, and, best of all, an awesome birding tee-shirt. White-fronted Nunbirds : These coral-beaked rainforest birds are always a highlight when birding in Costa Rica.

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JULY 2, 2019

Patrick has had his share of sightings in Costa Rica as well. Greeney lets go of his rigorous research style and has fun, offering quirky details (Scaled Antpitta “holds the somewhat dubious honour of being the antpitta most frequently recording dying in collisions with windows!

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MARCH 1, 2011

Now this, might not sound like anything of particular ground-breaking significance, but in the context of animal personality research, it is a fairly big thing. Whilst working on Scarlet Macaws in Costa Rica , I had the pleasure of having Katherine Herbourn assist with some of the field work we were doing. What do you think?

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SEPTEMBER 2, 2017

9 beats, birded 9 countries this month; Belize , Guatamala , Costa Rica, UK, Iran, USA, Greece, Australia and Mexico. Forestry Research Institute of Malaysia. Forestry Research Institute of Malaysia. Forestry Research Institute of Malaysia. Forestry Research Institute of Malaysia. Parque do Ibirapuera.

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DECEMBER 28, 2015

At least in the northeastern United States, their rate of so doing is high, according to research I summarized here. Patrick got a very good bird for Costa Rica as his Best Bird of the Year…though the circumstances made it bittersweet. Arctic Tern is a good bird in lots of places, Costa Rica among them!

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NOVEMBER 3, 2018

The two most prolific contributors, Pat and Tom, have been sharing their birding space in Costa Rica. During October, 7 countries (Costa Rica, Australia, USA, India, Hong Kong, UK, Serbia) were birded by 11 beats who shared 135 checklists and noted 697 species. Hopland Research and Extension Center (restricted access).

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OCTOBER 6, 2018

9 beats shared 100 checklists from 8 countries (Costa Rica, USA, UK, Brazil, Serbia, United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia and Australia. In an unusual turnaround during September, more birds were seen in USA than in Costa Rica. Hopland Research and Extension Center (restricted access). 03 Feb 2018. 03 Feb 2018.

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DECEMBER 4, 2023

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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