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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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Meanwhile, in San Jose, Calif., 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. If you’ve got some downtime between barbecues and fireworks (or, outside of the U.S., Know what else kills grassland birds?

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End of the Road Birding in Costa Rica at Luna Lodge

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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.