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What Flies Over Costa Rica in the Night?

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Several likely winter in the southern Amazon (where the forest and all of its incredible biodiversity is being steadily decimated and replaced with massive cattle farms) but according to migration data, even more may depend on the forests of the Gran Chaco in Paraguay and northern Argentina as well as related dry forest habitats in Bolivia.

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The “Rufa” Red Knot is now protected under the Endangered Species Act

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migration corridors from Argentina in the Southern tip of South America to Canada. In the spring, key staging and stopover areas include Patagonia, Argentina; eastern and northern Brazil; the southeast United States; the Virginia barrier islands; and Delaware Bay. Arctic Canada face ongoing and proposed development.

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Exploring the Uncharted Bird World

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601-800 sp: Canada, Costa Rica, Panama; Russia; Guinea, Ivory Coast, Ghana, Central African Republic, Equatorial Guinea, Gabon, Congo (Brazzaville), Zambia, Zimbabwe, Malawi, Mozambique, South Africa; Laos, New Guinea (PNG); Australia. 1101-1200 sp: Mexico; Argentina; DR Congo (Kinshasa), Tanzania, Kenya; India. 801-1000 sp. –

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Swainson’s Hawks in Plumas County

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From Canada, this migration is more than 10,000 km each way, a distance second among raptors only to that of the Arctic Peregrine Falcon 1. and Canadian breeding territory, and pesticide use in Argentina where they winter. When it’s not breeding, the Swainson’s Hawk eats insects, primarily grasshoppers.

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Why Red-ruffed Fruitcrow?

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The American tropics surely have their share of orioles, warblers, doves, jays, and other types of birds that birders as far north as Canada or even the Arctic Circle might encounter. Tropical birding demands tropical birds, those families and genera unique to their latitudes rather than shared via migration across various climate zones.

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I and the Bird: What is a Wren?

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We’re spoiled then, in the northern Americas, by our loud and garrulous wrens.

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Collaborative list – August 2019

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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). Canada Goose – Branta canadensis. Not to be out-done, the beats have been out doing their thing as well. Lago de Cuitzeo.

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