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

10,000 Birds

And when writing a field guide, it is accepted practice to adopt one of the above and to stick to it, with any questions or disagreements safely ensconced in the text, not in an actual change of species. It starts with water and wading birds and ending with meadowlark, blackbird, and bobolink.^ Howell turns all that on its head.

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And so the “Little Big Year” begins

10,000 Birds

We will get started here, in our adopted home of La Paz, Mexico, work our way north to Seattle where we catch our first airplane flight to New Zealand. There was just enough light to see a Peregrine Falcon swoop down thru the parking lot here at Marina Palmira. Highlights: American Pipit, Yellow-headed Blackbirds.

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