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Las Terrazas de Dana Boutique Lodge & Spa

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We are located in the heart of Choco Andino de Pichincha Biosphere Reserve declared on 25 July 2018 by UNESCO. We work with the best guides so our guests not only have outstanding hotel services in Mindo Cloud Forest, but they will also have a top-notch experience. She was attracted by the number of different species and their colors.

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Birding the Eshowe area, South Africa

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As usual, my experience with such boardwalks was somewhat underwhelming, as was Eshowe as a whole, but there were still a few birds worth mentioning at the forest and in the area surrounding Eshowe. The White-eared Barbet is another bird species with an annoyingly sensible Latin species name, leucotis (white-eared).

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What the rings reveal

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They are of the race islandica , a sub species of the nominate race, limosa. Once again the bird disappeared, or at least wasn’t reported, until it was noted at Titchwell RSPB Reserve on the North Norfolk coast on 10 July 2018. Rings are not the only way of marking birds, and with a number of species wing tags are more often used.

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

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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? © 2023 by Steve N. Not every bird.

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The Lake of Beasts: Kerkini, Greece

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Birdwise, it turned out to be a good one and my year list was almost 400 species long, which made me happy… almost. The Lesser White-fronted Goose is one of the most threatened waterfowl species of the Western Palearctic, with illegal killing being the most important threat globally. The solution? The Kerkini Lake.

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Birding Beyond Lake Yojoa and Panacam Lodge

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The birding around Lago de Yojoa in Honduras is frankly phenomenal, as I learned during a June 2018 birding junket organized by the Instituto Hondureño de Turismo. Since he first started walking his property, he’s located a slew of species so exciting that birders are starting to turn up at his doorstep.

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Far From Land: The Mysterious Lives of Seabirds–A Book Review

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It’s not often that we have the opportunity to glimpse the home life of albatrosses, nor of any seabird species. For most seabird species, the male takes the first shift and the male and female then alternate, but the period of time for each shift varies according to species. What about incubation shifts?

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