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Check out Birding Experiences in Costa Rica

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10,000 Birds is running a series of articles by and about tour guides, tour companies, eco-lodges, and other birding travel organizations. Costa Rican born and raised nature lover, birdwatcher and entrepreneur, working as a Certified Naturalist Guide since 2002. Learn more about us on Trip Advisor! About the Owners. DIEGO QUESADA.

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A kestrel in the rain

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He lives in Southeast England, writes articles about wildlife for local journals, exhibits his photos, and gives talks. Martin spent his working life in primary education, was formerly a trustee of Kent Wildlife Trust, and as a keen wildlife photographer, completed a Masters’s degree in photography in 2015.

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Come to Puembo Birding Garden

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10,000 Birds is running a series of articles by and about tour guides, tour companies, eco-lodges, and other birding travel organizations. Another – raising and selling trout to survive. We want to help the birding tourism industry come back strong from the COVID pandemic. One guide has been taking care of cattle.

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Bird Uganda with Bird Uganda Safaris

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10,000 Birds is running a series of articles by and about tour guides, tour companies, eco-lodges, and other birding travel organizations. We want to help the birding tourism industry come back strong from the COVID pandemic. Please consider using the services described in this post or any of the other posts we are sharing this February.

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Sunbirds of Sepilok

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A depressing article in Birding Asia raises the question about the validity of field surveys when there are many more caged birds to be seen than wild ones. Seeds and fruit are also part of the diet ( source ). Of course, this is particularly bad as most caged birds are most likely to have been caught in the wild.

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Streaks, Variegations, and Pirates

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All three species mentioned in this article breed on these islands, but the Piratic Flycatcher employs a truly piratic strategy: the breeding pair targets a recently built woven nest, often by a Yellow Oriole or Yellow-rumped Cacique but they have also been recorded targeting the nests of other flycatchers.

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Solid Air: Invisible Killer Saving Billions of Birds From Windows–A Book Review

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FLAP is the Fatal Light Awareness Program, located in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, and this is how they raise awareness. His seminal article, “Bird-Window Collisions,” based on dissertation research finished in 1979, was not published in a peer-reviewed journal until 1989.