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What Flies Over Costa Rica in the Night?

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On the northern birding calendar, October is a time for sparrows, cool weather, and tired fall leaves. It’s when Orange-crowned Warblers share the Goldenrod with lisping and chirping sparrows, when hardy Yellow-rumped Warblers dominate the Parulid scene. In Costa Rica, a lot of those birds fly right overhead.

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Collaborative List – September 2019 – (Red-letter version)

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However ticks from Argentina, Brazil, China and Mexico have pushed it to 3836. 10 Beats have been out in 9 countries (Argentina, Brazil, Serbia, China, Costa Rica, USA, UK, Italy and Mexico) and have shared 125 lists to account for 916 birds. Italian Sparrow – Passer italiae. This is them; . Alphabetic Taxonomic.

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Calilegua National Park Birding – Trip Report

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Calilegua National Park Birding – Trip Report. … continued from: Bird Watching Laguna del los Pozuelos. We had originally planned to stay this night at Yavi but we decided to give ourselves more time to explore Calilegua where there are more birds. This bird is stunningly beautiful and has lots of contrasting colors.

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Birding Santiago de Chile – Trip Report

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This is a continuation of Birding Argentina – Planning Stage. Farellones is a very popular sky area just east of Santiago and also a very hot birding place. We continued driving the zig-zag road slowly looking for birds and breathing the cool refreshing mountain air. What a bird! Chilean Mockingbird.

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I and the Bird: What is a Wren?

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There are few birds in the sprawl of suburbia or the sylvan ideal of semi-rural existence as appreciated as wrens. The name wren first entered language to refer to that bouncy bird we now call the Eurasian Wren in the 8th Century as the Old English wraenna. like a snake through grass. Carolina Wren, photo by Nate Swick.

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Collaborative list – August 2019

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7 species were added to the life list in the time-honoured fashion of actually identifying the birds in the field. 12 beats visited 12 countries (USA, UK, Costa Rica, Ghana, Nigeria, New Zealand, Serbia, Ireland, Australia, Mexico, China and Argentina), sharing 148 lists along the way and noting 844 species (old and new). 12 Aug 2019.

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Business Birding Basics

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My recent posts may have given the impression that business birding is always exotic , on remote islands or with lots of birds. However, any hour spent birding is an hour spent well! So, how does one combine birding with business? Birding on a refinery or birding in a mega-city. Preparation is key.

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