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Birding Calchaqui Valleys in Northern Argentina

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Continued from Birding Mendoza and Tafi del Valle Argentina. A great combination for any birder wanting a richer experience of northern Argentina and it birds. The special attraction in the Calchaqui valleys are the outstanding sceneries created by color contrasting mountains, deserts, and clear blue skies.

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Does Choco Screech-Owl Occur in Costa Rica?

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In any case, screech-owls are birds of the Megascops genus, small nocturnal owls found in wooded habitats from southern Alaska to northern Argentina. but without further evidence from playback experiments and/or genetic studies, splitting it now might be jumping the boat.

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Nightingale-Thrushes

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Birders throughout the Americas can experience the chalenges of Gull, Tern, New World Warbler, and Tyrant Flycatcher identification. But you have to be in southwestern Mexico, where I have lived for the past 25 years, to experience the difficulties of identifying Nightingale-Thrushes, which make up one part of the Thrush genus Catharus.

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Birding Chaco at JV Gonzles – Trip Report

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The first views of a Brown Cachalote made up for all of the dust sucking experience. My first heat thumping experience came when I saw the Crested Hornero. Got my second thumping experience with the first views of the Lark-like Bushrunner ! My third crested bird-thumping experience was the Red-crested Cardinal.

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Swarovski NL Pure – the Sexiest Binoculars Ever

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Next time I will try my local patch of Beljarica backwaters in Belgrade and check how much different the NL experience is. Once at home, I looked at Wildfowl by Steve Madge and Hilary Burn, to quickly discover that I was watching the Chiloe Wigeon , indigenous to Chile and Argentina. A Little Stint awaited me there this morning.

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Birdwatching Laguna de los Pozuelos – Trip Report

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Continued from: Birding Humauca and Abra Pampa – Northern Argentina Trip Report. After a goodnight sleep in a simple and clean hostal in Abra Pampa, we got up early so we could reach Laguna de Los Pozuelos at sunrise for a full day birding at one of the iconic places in Northern Argentina. Lesser Rhea also known as Puna Rhea. <object

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What is a Phoebe?

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Bigger than an Empidonax flycatcher and smaller than a Myiarchus , the Eastern Phoebe is usually only mistaken for a pewee, and even that becomes unlikely with experience. This phoebe is a fixture in the American Southwest and Central America and can be spotted all the way down to Argentina.

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