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This Week in Bird(ing) News: Orange Is the New Beak, and a Dead Parrot (No Joke!)

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Or maybe you’re visiting Belize, Guatemala, Paraguay, or the Bahamas? Peep the new “ugly” baby ibis at the UK’s Kirkleatham Owl Centre. The last-of-its-kind bird that may have inspired the animated movie Rio is an ex-parrot. Planning on birding Kenya? Then you’ll want to check out this new book.

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The Top 5 Avian Ambassadors of Costa Rica

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Would Barred Owls chuckle and admit that, for the record, “No, we really aren’t saying ‘Who cooks for you’?” The Rufous-naped Wren is a very animated, common species in Costa Rica. Which would travel to tourism conventions, give fun presentations and hand out cultural knick-knacks? Yellow-throated Toucan.