10,000 Birds

JUNE 22, 2019

The tropical habitats of Costa Rica are home to a surprising number of raptor species. In Costa Rica, this is the case for many raptors and is why fewer than expected are found during an average birding trip. As with many areas in Latin America that boast humid tropical forest, Costa Rica has three species of hawk-eagles.

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10,000 Birds

APRIL 13, 2019

One of the quandaries of birding in Costa Rica is deciding where to go birding. Costa Rica’s small size, ease of access and massive avian diversity promises a wealth of birds in many places. The post A Morning at Punta Morales, Costa Rica appeared first on 10,000 Birds.

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10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 28, 2017

In Costa Rica, October is our May. Most of them fly on the Caribbean side, especially along the coast south of Limon, and that’s why I guided the Birding Club of Costa Rica down that way this past weekend. Some of the Birding Club at Selva Bananito. Some were feeding on the ground. Black Swift!

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10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 6, 2014

Thanks to fortunate foresight, a lot of land was set aside in Costa Rica as national parks and protected areas (and some of these are easily accessed) but the best forest still happens to be at the terminus of the road and en route, you will be treated to species deficit birding in plenty of pastures. A pair of Shining Honeycreepers.

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10,000 Birds

AUGUST 5, 2017

In Costa Rica, the Blue-gray Tanager is an ideal species for opening the door to everything birds. Go birding for the first time in the Dominican Republic and you might wonder if a Broad-billed Tody is a flycatcher, a really lazy hummingbird, or if some super cute stuffed animal came to life. Not a Gartered Trogon.

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10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 9, 2017

I am in Puerto Viejo de Talamanca, in the very southeastern corner of Costa Rica. But why would someone look for that, an easy and common one among the 920+ bird species of Costa Rica? Part one: An Absolute Beginner in Costa Rica. One of those pooie reptiles: Green Iguana by Niklas Aronsson.

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10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 17, 2018

That might not sound like much but trust me, in Costa Rica, this is major. Quite the host, show up, pay the $10 trail fee and Geovani might give you coffee, pineapples, or papaya while cracking jokes and talking about the birds and other animals that have come to live in the area of regrowth around the trail. Fancy curassows.

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10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 27, 2018

Many of them come to Costa Rica because even when it rains, it never really gets cold this far south of the Tropic of Cancer. Surviving on the Caribbean coast of Costa Rica. This might be partly why Halloween hasn’t taken hold in Costa Rica. These are the winners: BEST COSTUMES. Laughing Falcon.

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10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 26, 2021

The Arenal Observatory Lodge & Spa in La Fortuna de San Carlos, Costa Rica has a rich history as a birding-friendly eco-lodge. This also makes the Arenal Observatory Lodge an ideal location for wildlife observation in Costa Rica.

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10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 11, 2021

I remember a cartoon showing the prehistoric Earth as a vast forest with tiny villages fenced-off due to dangerous animals, and the today’s Earth as a wasteland, with a few tiny forests remaining, fenced-off due to abominable humans. If travelling to, e.g., Costa Rica or Ecuador, whatever you need you can find online.

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10,000 Birds

JANUARY 9, 2019

This bird is 3 inches long, lives in the darkest part of the jungle understory of Costa Rica, and never sits still! For shear beauty and color, it would be hard to ever find a more amazing group of birds that we found in Costa Rica. We spent a total of 22 days in Costa Rica, with 15 of those days spent truly birding.

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Reddit Animals

OCTOBER 16, 2023

Why are they so aggressive towards humans in Mexico and Costa Rica, but not where I live in Florida? submitted by /u/Unhappy_Cheesecake34 [link] [comments]

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Reddit Animals

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

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10,000 Birds

JULY 6, 2019

I think this is one of the reasons why so many people visiting Costa Rica want to see the bird with the big banana bill, some ask if you have seen “the toucan” Photos and field guides have shown them that these fantastic cartoonish birds do indeed exist and they have heard that a lot of visitors to Costa Rica see toucans.

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SEPTEMBER 12, 2019

Having mobility issues, I still remember birding from a van along a rather productive dirt road in Costa Rica ( Broad-billed Motmot , Lineated Woodpecker , Cocoa Woodcreeper , etc.), stayed to rrroar to the locals, also visit their homesteads, to see which races of domestic animals they breed, etc.

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Critter News

JANUARY 13, 2009

At the end of 2007, the World Society for the Protection of Animals selected the McKee Project to work on spay/neuter programs in Guatemala. Although they are best known for their work in Costa Rica, they also work in Mexico and Panama. This is a great group that I've spotlighted before.

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4 The Love Of Animals

JULY 20, 2009

It’s called I’m Not Hanging Noodles on Your Ears and Other Intriguing Idioms From Around the World and there are many that have to do with animals! Here is a list of some animal related idioms. To change the fishes’ water>to urinate (Spanish, Costa Rica). And they are pretty funny!

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10,000 Birds

JANUARY 18, 2024

(of a plant or animal) native and restricted to a certain place. Which means that the large country of Mexico boasts (according to one list) 127 endemic bird species, while the famous birders’ destination of Costa Rica has only 6.

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10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 24, 2018

Nearly 30,000 of these acres is set aside as dry wilderness habitat for other birds, animals and other various living creatures. In about 10 days, we leave for our last (at least up to now) out of the US trip, with 21 days scheduled in Costa Rica. We are tired… but we will trudge on a bit longer.

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4 The Love Of Animals

MARCH 2, 2013

If you live in or near a more rural area, many farms will also take dogs at an affordable rate, providing both boarding and a host of opportunities for playing outside and interacting with farm animals. Rob is a lover of all things animal who also happens to enjoy traveling in his free time. Enjoy your trip!

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10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 31, 2012

I’ve always been interested in wild versions of farm animals and was lucky enough to see both species this year and to me the grey junglefowl is like that cool hipster band to the red junglefowl’s worldwide pop smash – it makes less effort and is less colourful but somehow understatement makes it more interesting.

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10,000 Birds

JUNE 2, 2021

I used to complain about the prevalence of low-value corn production in the state, often still involving animals pulling ancient plows, while Guanajuato state to the north was using drip irrigation and microtunnels to produce high-value produce. In June of last year, CNN ran an article on Costa Rica’s success at reversing deforestation.

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10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 5, 2021

Some odonates (dragonflies and damselflies) are included in Costa Rica nature guides, but there are hundreds of these beautiful creatures flying around the diverse habitats of Costa Rican and there has not been a guide devoted just to them till now. Still, I have been stuck trying to identify a dragonfly I photographed in 2010.

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10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 13, 2014

And some of the extinctions were of small animals, like the many dwarf goats and elephants in the Mediterranean. Which Bird Species Have Gone Extinct in Costa Rica? It’s when we lost the mammoths, the sabre-tooth cats, the giant ground sloths, the elephant birds, the marsupial lions, and other iconic giants.

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 15, 2011

Dale studied scarlet macaws, and worked in their conservation, for three years in southern Costa Rica, followed by a year in the Caribbean working on Whale Sharks. Journal of Ornithology 137 (1): 35-51 N. Davies et al. 1995 The polygynandrous mating system of the alpine accentor, Prunella collaris.

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 1, 2011

Now this, might not sound like anything of particular ground-breaking significance, but in the context of animal personality research, it is a fairly big thing. Whilst working on Scarlet Macaws in Costa Rica , I had the pleasure of having Katherine Herbourn assist with some of the field work we were doing.

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