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Escaped vs Wild Whistling Ducks

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Three White-faced Whistling Ducks showed up in Villa Marshes in Lima-Peru. Villa Marshes is an Ebird hot spot and popular site among Peru’s fast growing birding community. They don’t even take their tucked-in heads out, a position some resting ducks adopt, when people approach them to distances of only a few meters.

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New Big Day Record Broken for Costa Rica!

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The world record being referred to here is that good old famous one set by Ted Parker and Scott Robinson in Manu National Park, Peru, in 1982. But what about Costa Rica, isn’t this post about a new Big Day record for my adopted, birdy country? They probably saw Green Honeycreeper.

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Birds aren’t real – The Black-tailed Trogon

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Black-tailed Trogon ( Trogon melanurus) Mainly a species of the Amazonian lowlands (two other disjunct populations exist from central Panama to northern Colombia and in western Ecuador and northwestern Peru) they are heard more often than seen as they tend to remain well above the ground, favoring the forest canopy to subcanopy.

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

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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. Howell turns all that on its head.

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Conserving the Future: Bold Bird Ideas

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The results will inform a vision document to be adopted in July 2011 at a national conference to guide the NWR system for wildlife protection into the next decade and beyond. To that end, the principals have created a terrific site called Conserving the Future: Refuges and the Next Generation to elicit votes and comments.

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Fun, Fun, Fun Crossley ID Guide Giveaway

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Why should early adopters be punished for their passion? The impact of those rich, dynamic plates delivers an unprecedented dose of ornithological information per square inch packed with so much potency that readers are sometimes left reeling. Sounds good, right?

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Stalking a Kiwi Icon

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The kiwi (note, Maori loanwords do not get an ‘s’ when made plural) were first used as logos in the 19th century, and were quickly adopted as a a national emblem before the turn of the century. Though it is certainly bad news that the U.S.