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Bird Migration and Conservation Meet at Selva Bananito, Costa Rica

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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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The Beauty of Tropical Birdiness in Arenal, Costa Rica

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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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Visit the Arenal Observatory Lodge and Spa

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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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Costa Rica’s Best Birds of Halloween

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This is why the Yellow Warblers and Baltimore Orioles of summer don’t linger to experience October 31st, and even late fall migrants like kinglets and sparrows move to slightly warmer regions. 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.

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Colorful + Devious = Toucans of Costa Rica

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While the jays did catch our attention by way of a smart crest and different shades of blue and gray punctuated by a black necklace and mascara, they were part of our common natural experience, their existence was taken for granted. These are the six species that occur in Costa Rica: Yellow-throated Toucan (Ramphastos swainsonii).

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Your Best Birds of the Year for 2012

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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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Dragonflies and Damselflies of Costa Rica: A Field Guide–A Book Review

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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.