10,000 Birds

MARCH 30, 2019

Wood Thrushe s are already singing in some places, although not in Costa Rica. . Some of those migrants don’t have far to go but the majority of species are winging their way in from Mexico, Central America, and South America. For many, Costa Rica is close to the halfway point.

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10,000 Birds

JULY 4, 2020

Whether you happen to be more interested in music or birds, you may love “A Guide to the Birdsong of Mexico, Central America, and the Caribbean” Since this is a music project rather than an actual guide of bird vocalizations, there won’t be a catalog of antbird trills and toucan yelps. Oh, how nice that would be!

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 21, 2015

Birders head to Costa Rica to see stunners like Resplendent Quetzal , Three-wattled Bellbird , Orange-collared Manakin , fancy hummingbirds , tanagers, and literally hundreds of other birds. A species that lives in both Costa Rica and South America but might be two separate species. (3). One of them quetzals.

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Costa Rica Species South America America 217

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 28, 2015

In Costa Rica, although I did spend a memorable one years ago in the Osa Peninsula where flocks of parrots flew into the mangroves while we feasted on turkey, pie, and the works, we have no actual Wild Turkeys , nor an official Thanksgiving. It also ranges widely from Mexico south to western Ecuador. Ain’t I great?

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Costa Rica Turkey Ecuador Hunting 176

10,000 Birds

APRIL 25, 2019

4%: Mexico, West Papua (Indonesia), New Zealand, South Africa, Kenya. 21%: Costa Rica. The high position of Costa Rica comes as no surprise and yet, with more than one fifth of the total votes, I was a bit surprised how strong its 1st place is. The post Where America dreams of/goes birding?

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10,000 Birds

JANUARY 18, 2024

Which means that the large country of Mexico boasts (according to one list) 127 endemic bird species, while the famous birders’ destination of Costa Rica has only 6. I’ve seen about a fifth of Mexico’s endemic birds, almost all of them right here in the state of Michoacán.

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Costa Rica Mexico North America Lions 193

10,000 Birds

MAY 23, 2020

May migration in many parts of eastern North America was and is an amazing natural celebration. In Costa Rica, well…not so much. A bird of the high elevation cloud forest, this stunner only occurs in Costa Rica and western Panama. One of the common species of middle elevation habitats in Costa Rica.

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Costa Rica Panama Nashville Baltimore 264

10,000 Birds

JULY 4, 2017

Raptors of Mexico and Central America by William S. This is the first identification guide that I know of that covers Mexico (technically North America but rarely included in North American raptor guides) and Central America. Interestingly, Raptors of Mexico and Central America does not cover vocalization.

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10,000 Birds

JULY 23, 2016

Birders concerned with ticking off bird species from a list in North America already know all about the AOU Supplement. In this case, it augments and clarifies previous knowledge regarding the classification of the birds in North America. However, like any supplement, this publication does provide something extra, something additional.

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Costa Rica 2016 South America Panama 100

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 6, 2018

It actually makes a lot of sense, the geographic features of the isthmus between North America (including Mexico, because Mexico is part of North America) and South America cut across political lines, as do birds. One field guide, seven countries. It’s unique in two major ways.

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America El Salvador Costa Rica Honduras 214

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 6, 2016

So, if you are going to write a field guide on the birds of the countries south and east of Mexico–Belize, El Salvador, Guatemala, and Honduras—it makes the utmost sense that you embrace the whole geographic area. It has been a long time between field guides for most of these countries.

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El Salvador America Costa Rica Honduras 234

10,000 Birds

APRIL 21, 2021

The Cinnamon-rumped Flowerpiercer is the only flower-piercing game in town if you live in North America. And yes, Mexico is part of North America, not Central or South America.) Its range extends as far as Nicaragua in Central America, where it is joined, in Costa Rica and Panama, by The Slaty Flowerpiercer.

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Costa Rica South America North America Venezuela 254

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 1, 2014

Bird as much as you want from Mexico to Bolivia, and you could easily never see or hear one for years. As luck would have it, the Maroon-chested Ground-Dove was removed from my target list after my second trip to Costa Rica in 1994. Trips Costa Rica doves' No, not just one or two but something like 15 or 20.

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Costa Rica Bolivia South America Rats 177

10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 9, 2022

But there are apparently almost a million Americans that have settled here in Mexico, far beyond any other country’s total. Those who retire here usually did so because their retirement money will go so much further in Mexico. Every lifer is, of course, a new experience, and Mexico offers a lot of them! Good choice!).

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10,000 Birds

JULY 19, 2018

And what does it tell us, other than the obvious “head for South America” or perhaps Indonesia? In some cases the data are outdated, e.g. Costa Rica has 900 and not 800 species, but I made no corrections, remaining faithful to the original map data. 1101-1200 sp: Mexico; Argentina; DR Congo (Kinshasa), Tanzania, Kenya; India.

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Equatorial Guinea Costa Rica Guyana Central African Republic 200

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 25, 2015

The Durango Highway is arguably one of North America’s great birding roads due to the great variety of habitats, the spectacular mountain scenery of the Sierra Madre Occidental, and the numerous Mexican endemics one can target. Think Arizona meets Costa Rica with a Mexican twist.

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Mexico Costa Rica Arizona Birds 196

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 7, 2014

Patrick is the kings of Costa Rica bird blogging and we are excited to have him posting here on 10,000 Birds as both Mike and Corey have been fans of his blog, Costa Rica Living and Birding , for quite some time. Blogging bloggers Costa Rica'

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10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 3, 2011

I have taken refuge on the high ground as Irene batters the east coast of North America and Nanmadol swamps the Philipines, Taiwan and east China, but my thoughts and best wishes are with anyone who has been affected by the storms. As I write, Popacatapetl, the volcano 50 miles south-east of Mexico city, is grumbling outside the window.

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Costa Rica Mexico Taiwan Honduras 209

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 14, 2014

Before finally connecting to the South American continent about three million years ago, Central America consisted of a series of volcanic islands. One of these islands may have been the present day Northern Central American Highlands which includes Honduras, Guatemala, El Salvador, and parts of extreme southern Mexico (Chiapas).

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Honduras Costa Rica El Salvador Arizona 220

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 20, 2013

They packed up in June of 2013 and headed south from San Diego with the southern tip of South America as their destination. Lesser Ground-Cuckoos occur along the Pacific slope from Mexico to Costa Rica in tropical lowland thorn and deciduous forest up to approximately 1800 meters.

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Critter News

JANUARY 13, 2009

Although they are best known for their work in Costa Rica, they also work in Mexico and Panama. Tags: spay and neuter latin america. At the end of 2007, the World Society for the Protection of Animals selected the McKee Project to work on spay/neuter programs in Guatemala.

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Guatemala World Society For The Protection Of Animals Spay Spaying 100

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 28, 2014

They packed up in June of 2013 and headed south from San Diego with the southern tip of South America as their destination. This video by Kathi Borgmann shows an army ant swarm in Mexico. One of our best was in the lowlands of Chiapas, Mexico. … Birding antbirds ants Central America' Ruddy Woodcreeper.

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10,000 Birds

JUNE 19, 2013

References: 1 Birds of North America Online , 2 California Bird Species of Special Concern : A ranked assessment of species, subspecies, and distinct populations of birds of immediate conservation concern in California. Photo from Wikipedia Commons taken by Terry Gray.

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California North America Costa Rica Niger 214

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 4, 2018

Howell and Jon Dunn list “overall size and structure” as the fundamental first step in gull identification in their classic Gulls of the Americas (though they then go on to describe endless variations of plumage patterns). This isn’t a new idea. Species Accounts. Gulls Simplified covers 25 species. Range Maps.

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North America America El Salvador Nicaragua 204

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 5, 2011

For a bird that is only hours from starving to death at any given time, it is no small feat to traverse the 500 miles across the Gulf of Mexico! Found in Costa Rica, Honduras, Panama and Nicaragua, this tiny hummingbird is placed within its own genus microchera. hummers on earth. 17 spot is the Rainbow-bearded Thornbill.

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10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 6, 2012

It was the adventure of a lifetime, made even more exciting by a travel route that went through Panama and Mexico, where Ridgway was exposed to Neotropical birds, a passion that informed his later work. He wrote about birds in North America, Central America, and parts of South America, including the Galapagos.

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Collecting Illinois United States Science 150

10,000 Birds

MARCH 4, 2017

Submissions for February have been received from Austria, Australia, UK, Japan, Costa Rica, Serbia, Mexico, USA, The Bahamas and Lichtenstein. Submissions for February have been received from Austria, Australia, UK, Japan, Costa Rica, Serbia, Mexico, USA, The Bahamas and Lichtenstein. La Paz, Mexico.

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2017 Australia Sanctuary Woodpeckers 100