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Stairway to Heaven

10,000 Birds

The Yellow-green Vireo is another of those rare birds that winter in South America but only travels north as far as Mexico to breed. Three years ago, when I had the privilege of showing one of my favorite sites to Mexico’s top birder couple, they noticed a Yellow-green Vireo in the brush and pointed it out to me.

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The Joy of One-eyed Birding

10,000 Birds

it is in Michoacán , in the southwest of Mexico. Lamb, who surveyed the birds of western Mexico from 1932-1955, and whose lists have been posted on eBird in recent years. 1st Hudsonian Godwits in central Mexico. They breed in northernmost Canada and Alaska, and winter in Patagonia in southernmost South America.

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