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Foreign Languages on a Birding Trip

10,000 Birds

At some stage, almost standing still in a traffic jam on the highway towards San Jose, I was calling a fellow 10K beat writer Pat O’Donnell, enquiring about the chances to meet in my hotel. stayed to rrroar to the locals, also visit their homesteads, to see which races of domestic animals they breed, etc. was nowhere to be seen.

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End of the Road Birding in Costa Rica at Luna Lodge

10,000 Birds

This foot-shaped piece of land in southern Costa Rica is just about as far from San Jose as you can go without leaving the country. This special place is also one of the last bastions of wild rainforest on the Pacific coast of Central America, hosts many endemic plants and animals, and as one may surmise, is pretty awesome for birds.