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What Happened in Costa Rica on Global Big Day, 2017

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Next on the agenda was the drive up and over the mountains with time to check for Bare-shanked Screech-Owl and Dusky Nightjar. Since it had been calling almost nightly for two months, I had hoped it would still come out and play on Global Big Day but knew that it could also stop calling at any time.

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Australia’s extinct and threatened bird species

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One of the birds most likely to have been heard about in recent years is the Night Parrot. The removal of native trees takes away the nectar that so many birds rely on and even large dead trees are used for nesting by a variety of parrots and cockatoos. Handbook to The Birds of Australia, 1865. Preface,p.xxiv.

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