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Highlights from Costa Rica, Global Bird Weekend, 2020

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Rufous-vented Ground-Cuckoo is always tough and unreliable, we got collectively lucky when a local birder found one at Rincon de la Vieja , one of the better sites for this shy species in Costa Rica! Oh yeah, and the serious mega of the day was a dang adult Gray-hooded Gull seen at the shorebird hotspot of Punta Morales!

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How to Know the Birds: The Art and Adventure of Birding – A Book Review

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There is also a bit of science thrown in–bird banding, remote sensing, museum collecting–not everything, but enough to give the beginner a taste of the ornithological side of the birding passion. National Geographic, March 2019, 304 pages, 6.3 How to Know the Birds: The Art and Adventure of Birding. by Ted Floyd.

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De arte venandi cum avibus: San Martino Siir (2015) – Aglianico del Vulture DOC

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Falconry Month at Birds and Booze: I’ve decided to dedicate this month of March 2019 to wines and beers related to the history of falconry – or hawking – for no other reason than that I’ve recently acquired several bottles adorned with mostly medieval European iconography relating to this “sport of kings”.

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Combined Beats’ List – September

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The Management and beats at 10,000 Birds send a big hat tip and a collective thank you to eBird for their facility which allows us to easily register the beat sightings into a joint account. Punta Morales–Cocorocas salinas. Alphabetic Taxonomic. Common Ostrich – Struthio camelus. Finca Hamadryas. 09 Jan 2016.

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