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Looking for Lost Warblers at Parque Rio Loro, Costa Rica

10,000 Birds

The stars of the bird world take many forms and fame is often related to location but some species, some cool groups of birds are accorded priority no matter when or where they are seen. One such star avian family is the Setophagidae, the birds known as wood-warblers. It didn’t open until eight but the visit was still a good one.

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Pygmy Nuthatches at Lassen Volcanic National Park

10,000 Birds

The Pygmy Nuthatch ( Sitta pygmaea ) is a non-migratory bird that lives primarily in Ponderosa and Jeffrey Pine forests in western North America. They are one of the few cooperatively breeding passerines in North America and a third of the breeding pairs have 1–3 male helpers, usually progeny or other relatives.

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White-backed Vultures are Proper Birds

10,000 Birds

It can’t have escaped your notice lately that the blog has been overrun with articles about North America’s pseudo-warblers (or wood warblers, as some people, apparently unaware the name is taken by a proper European species, call them), and, even worse, no small amount of poetry.

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Disneynature Chimpanzee

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The money will help to protect chimpanzees and their habitats, now and into the future. CHIMPANZEE is a story of family bonds, individual triumph, and extraordinary personalities of the intelligent chimps. “We We are very excited to bring the story of Oscar and his chimpanzee family to the big screen.

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I and the Bird: What is a Vulture?

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I’m focusing on Turkey Vultures here because they are undoubtedly the species most birders in North America (the home of 10kB) are most familiar with, but the name vulture applies to birds found around the globe. Old World Vultures are nestled within the family Acciptridae along with the hawks and eagles. millions years ago.

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Recent Changes to the Costa Rica Bird List

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This does not include the various changes made to Latin names, taxonomic ordering, nor changes to families.: Split from birds in northern Central America (the White-faced Ground-Sparrow ), the Cabanis’s becomes a very special bird. Once upon a time, it was lumped with the Masked Yellowthroat of South America.

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Birds of Bolivia: Field Guide–A Book Review

10,000 Birds

Diversity of habitat means, of course, great biodiversity, and the Introduction boasts that Bolivia “is the richest landlocked nation on Earth for bird diversity, the sixth richest overall, and the fifth richest in the Americas” (p. ” The book in question is Birds of Bolivia: Field Guide , edited and written by Sebastian K.

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