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Birding Under the Influence: A Book Review

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This added layer elevates Birding Under the Influence: Cycling Across America in Search of Birds and Recovery from a book of fun birding and travel adventures to a more complex memoir about the ways in which birding spurs self-reflection, motivates life change, feeds a need for wonder, and creates community. The absolute craziness of it all?

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Afforestation

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But one tree isn’t going to reverse the damage occuring in Latin America. Each of the following trees are from that original group of seedlings; they have all survived 3 brushfires, and only the Ocote Pine has yet made it beyond waist-high: This Michoacán Pine is one year younger, and has survived one less brushfire.

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Bird Migration and Conservation Meet at Selva Bananito, Costa Rica

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Birds begin to filter down through this southern part of Central America by August but the biggest avian movement happens during the third and final weeks of October. We might not get the variety of a New Jersey autumn but we do get major numbers of species that winter in South America. In Costa Rica, October is our May.

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How to Help Cerulean Warblers, Other Migrant Species, and Resident Birds in Costa Rica

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A wonderful variety of bird species are waiting to be seen and among them are many a birder’s favorite avian group, the wood-warblers. Whatever the reason may be, we do know that Las Brisas provides a lot of food and shelter for Cerulean Warblers as they migrate south. Ernesto and his team in the field. How You Can Help.

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Spectacular Birding on Cerro Montezuma

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What happens when you visit one of the best birdwatching sites in the region with the highest number of endemic bird species in the Americas in the world’s birdiest country? My group came to Montezuma to spy tasty ChocĂł endemic tanagers, hummingbirds, and anything else we could lay eyes on. Your mind gets blown.

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Zero Gravity Brewing Company: Bobolink Saison

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For many grassland species, our vast expanses of tilled and plowed fields, orchards and vineyards, pastures and rangeland offer an abundance of convenient food and shelter – and some bolder birds even wander indoors to find these things in our barns and stables.

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Talking Turkey (Vulture): Great Quotes about Vultures

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Huddled on their perches, wrapped in shabby vestments, the birds look like a group of balding monks gathered in prayer. Part of me is curious where the birds are off to, whether to roost in the trees by the river or nest in the shelter of the hills. That’s just not right. How cool is that?

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