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The Gas Station Bird

10,000 Birds

Both falconers and wildlife rehabilitators have to study, gain experience, and jump through various hoops in order to get their licenses. For instance, you can own a lion in Alabama, but not in California. You can own a gorilla in Indiana, but not a bear in Michigan. You can own a yak in Kentucky, but not a cheetah in Maine.

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Ten Highlights from Birding in Costa Rica, 2018

10,000 Birds

The Wilson’s Plovers with their stout crab cracking beaks and hunched demeanor, they have less distance to fly but it’s still no small feat to zip from Alabama to Costa Rica. Life is always better when bearing witness to Sunbittern madness. Just fly from there to here to rumble around the mud flats of the Nicoya Gulf?