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Looking for Lost Warblers at Parque Rio Loro, Costa Rica

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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. Those would be birds like Nashville, Black-throated Blue, Prairie, and Cape-May Warblers.

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Wood Warbler Names Done Right

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That fallacious family name seems to have encouraged all manner of knaves, dunderheads, and miscreants when time came to label species. Somehow, the northernmost redstart in the Americas didn’t receive the same treatment. Appropriate appellations should respect the birds, not 19th century naturalists and their friends and family.

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