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Mexico Beat BBOTY

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It is one of those interesting few species that winter in South America, but only migrate as far north as Mexico to breed. Rufous-naped Wren: The lowest ranked 2020 lifer on my list, only because it is extremely common in tropical Mexico, and I was bound to see it eventually. Another Acapulco sighting. .

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Friends in High Places

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That highest spot is in the middle of Mexico’s Cerro de Garnica National Park. My first visit there, in June of 2014, was short and apparently just good enough to make me want to go back again, with a mere 12 species seen. The lowest spot possible, oddly enough, is the same number of meters below our home, at 1,000 m (3,300 ft).

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Birds of Costa Rica by Dyer and N. G. Howell

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And I remember what I told him, based on many recent field guide trends: Coming from them, it will be a good book, but it will be nowhere near the user-friendliness of “Birds of Costa Rica” by Garrigues and Dean from 2014. Practically without exemption, new editions tend to be larger and heavier than their predecessors.

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

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It’s not clear how many of the plates have been touched up, redrawn or are new, and I hope we’ll learn more about the process, perhaps when the third book in the series by Howell and Dyer, a new guide to the birds of Mexico, is published.* Why are these issues? Author Steve N. Birds of Costa Rica, artwork by Dale Dyer, p.

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Another surprise bird out of Florida Canyon

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A form of Bushtit, not an actual subspecies, which I understand is rarely ever seen north of the Mexico border, and even then usually in Texas. Here is another shot of this very cool bird.

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Peterson Field Guide to Birds of Northern Central America: A Book Review

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So, if you are going to write a field guide on the birds of the countries south and east of Mexico–Belize, El Salvador, Guatemala, and Honduras—it makes the utmost sense that you embrace the whole geographic area. It has been a long time between field guides for most of these countries.

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Paradise Regained

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It wasn’t until a later Pino Real trip, back in 2014, that I saw my first Black-headed Siskins. In Mexico they call the Ash-throated Flycatcher “Copetón Triste” , or Sad Crested-Bird; it’s mournful call distinguishes it from other nearly-identical flycatchers of the Myiarchus genus.

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