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What Happened in Costa Rica on Global Big Day, 2017

10,000 Birds

Next on the agenda was the drive up and over the mountains with time to check for Bare-shanked Screech-Owl and Dusky Nightjar. That title went to a team in Peru that identified 309 species, second place going to a team in Brazil with 307 species (check out the totals per country !).

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ACTION ALERT! Tomorrow, MARCH 15, 2011, is the deadline for public.

10,000 Birds

Here’s a tidbit from the NRA’s Hunters’ Rights website: “Sandhill cranes are hunted much like geese, with decoys set in fields and hunters stationed in blinds. Those opposed have anti-hunting agendas and can not be allowed to dictate what game species are hunted. Wicked, right? Isn’t that neat?

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