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10,000 Birds
APRIL 15, 2020
As I mentioned last week, social distancing is widespread but still voluntary here in Mexico, so there are no limitations on being able to get out and enjoy nature. Living in central Mexico, I’m not a big fan of random encounters with passersby. This has determined which places I visit, and which I avoid.
10,000 Birds
OCTOBER 29, 2022
One such star avian family is the Setophagidae, the birds known as wood-warblers. In Costa Rica, those would be the wood-warblers that do a lot more wintering in the southern USA and the Caribbean than in southern Central America. In fact, the first one I ever saw was a wintering bird in Mexico.
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10,000 Birds
NOVEMBER 28, 2015
In other words, millions of people got together with family and friends for a cozy day of mashed potatoes, gravy, apple pie, naps, football, and some serious turkeyliciousness. The turkeys I’m talking about up in here are three of the five members of the Cracidae family that occur in Costa Rica. Ain’t I great?
10,000 Birds
JULY 20, 2019
This does not include the various changes made to Latin names, taxonomic ordering, nor changes to families.: Seen Green Violetear in Mexico and Costa Rica? But, birds in eastern Mexico have even more blue and are now their own species so Lesson’s Motmot it is. Spot-bellied Bobwhite bites the dust. Hummingbird changes.
10,000 Birds
MAY 7, 2019
How to Know the Birds talks about 200 commonly found birds in North America (including one extinct bird, the Passenger Pigeon) in 200 brief essays, each exactly one page long. John Schmitt, who illustrated Raptors of Mexico and Central America amongst many other books and magazine articles. He received a B.A.
10,000 Birds
FEBRUARY 28, 2011
The conservation need is urgent: great attention has rightly been paid to Brazil’s Amazonian rainforest but not enough resources have gone to the Pantanal and the Cerrado, of which only 4% and 5%, respectively, are protected. Each family of birds has a short introductory paragraph and most genera get a sentence or two of description.
10,000 Birds
MARCH 11, 2011
That larger clade is in turn sister to a clade containing the four remaining totipalmate bird families, which do still seem to be related, and which needed a new order name once pelicans were removed. But meanwhile, let’s look at the four avian families that comprise the brand new order Suliformes.
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