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What Flies Over Costa Rica in the Night?

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but there are other birds, many stopping to stay, many others moving to South America. If the wind carries them on, maybe they will go to Panama, or even make it to Colombia. Latin America tends to be loud and Costa Rica is no exception. In Costa Rica, a lot of those birds fly right overhead. Cuckoos are up There.

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Birding Inirida, Colombia, or river dolphins and hoatzins, part 2

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… – part 2 – Once I finish this writing, with a strange mix of emotions I will put the Lynx field guide Birds of Colombia to the bookshelf for the first time, more than half a year after I received it. Because of that, the bird has a manure-like odour and is only hunted by humans for food in times of dire need” [ Source ].

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The Dracula Bird

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Its historical year-round range stretches from extreme northwestern Colombia to northern Mexico, with migration into the southwestern United States in the summer. But all this changed with the arrival of Europeans, and their cattle. In contrast, the Brown-headed Cowbird is a same-continent invasive species. Starling -numerous.

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