10,000 Birds
SEPTEMBER 8, 2023
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). For context, the IOC version 13.1
10,000 Birds
NOVEMBER 17, 2022
She started guiding at Rancho in 2016, only to embark upon a Costa Rica Big Year in the next, 2017. And yes, sometime in 2018, Mercedes and Harry started dating. My other guide, Mercedes Alpizar, grew up near the Rancho in the Turrialba area, graduated in Ecological Tourism and studied English at the University of Costa Rica.
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10,000 Birds
JUNE 7, 2018
Before (May 2016, by Zeljko Stanimirovic)…. and after the road construction (June 2018). There is not a slightest trace of asphalt, nor the promised sewage ponds, which may be good for the two Little Ringed Plover families incubating their eggs at the site as we speak, but is far from good for the people living there.
10,000 Birds
MARCH 23, 2020
Great Shearwater – At this point, seabirds are my weakest family in Queens with the most species having reported in the borough that I have not seen. 313 – Greater White-fronted Goose , 21 February 2016: I don’t know how I didn’t see this one coming. I must stare at the ocean a lot. Sooty Shearwater – Ditto.
10,000 Birds
MARCH 3, 2020
One of these days, Jeopardy will feature a category called “Field Guides” and the first clue will be: “This landlocked South American country finally got its own bird field guide in 2016, but it wasn’t available in the United State until 2019.” This unfortunately happens with the large Tanager (Thraupidae) family here.
10,000 Birds
JULY 21, 2021
I have now seen and photographed this species there in February of 2016, early August of 2020, and in July of 2015, 2016, 2018, and now, 2021. (In And we do, in fact, have some scrawny members of the family here in Morelia, but they hardly deserve the name. This fellow, however, was the real deal.
10,000 Birds
NOVEMBER 6, 2018
Within families, the species are arranged less taxonomically and more in line with “design and space considerations,” (Introduction), and on the plates themselves, species are arranged to facilitate comparison. Text is on the left, plates are on the right. Both genus names and species names are listed.
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