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A Near Conjunction

10,000 Birds

Cocoa Woodcreepers are the largest species of woodcreeper in T&T, and they have a proportionately massive bill. Alas, he was gone before I had a chance to lift my camera. It glared at something in the leaf litter (is there any other way raptors look at anything?) Definitely a hawk-eagle, but which? Was it this bird?

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Birding in Costa Rica Off the Beaten Track at Hitoy Cerere

10,000 Birds

Some don’t work as well as I would like, and others turn out to be birding gold mines, but no matter which species show, it’s always an adventure. For example, the leaf litter didn’t look as dry as other places, and I noticed a fair number of frogs, insects, and small lizards in the understory.