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Habitat Mash-up

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We only saw the first two, and in our effort to scour each broken limb for a perched raptor, we stumbled upon a Bat Falcon of all creatures. Bat Falcon in the now blazing sun. On our journey back, we tried again by a couple forested bridges for any glimpse of a Rufescent Tiger-Heron , but no luck on that front. Rufous Crab-Hawk.

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Birding Sukau, Sabah, Borneo

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Tiphys died either of a snakebite or of a mysterious illness but he was not killed by either a tiger or a rhinoceros. The Bat Hawk mainly eats bats, as the name suggests – in a curiously precise statement, Wikipedia claims that 49.3% I guess he should have stuck with the substantially less dangerous trogons.

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Poop From The Front End Of The Bird

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But the jawbone…that was from a bat! Oehlenschlager apologized that he couldn’t say the exact species of bat. It was either a big brown bat or a hoary bat. Oehlenschlager said that because two teeth were missing, he couldn’t give a positive id on the bat.

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Caribbean Lowland Birding at Ara Ambigua Lodge, Costa Rica

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On our first morning, we actually ended up with over 90 species in a couple of hours right around the rooms of the hotel, best ones being Green Ibis (common at the hotel ponds), Bat Falcon , Cinnamon and Rufous-winged Woodpeckers , Fasciated Antshrike , Plain-colored Tanager , Crimson-collared Tanager , and Black-headed Tody-Flycatcher.

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Pat’s 2020 Bird List, Mostly from Costa Rica

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Bare-throated Tiger-Heron – Tigrisoma mexicanum; Tambor, 3-Jan. Bat Falcon – Falco rufigularis; Curu, 4-Jan. Anhinga – Anhinga anhinga; Paquera, 3-Jan. Neotropic Cormorant – Phalacrocorax brasilianus; Paquera, 3-Jan. Brown Pelican – Pelicanus occidentalis; Paquera, 3-Jan Tigrisoma mexicanum. Great Egret – Ardea alba; Tambor, 3-Jan.

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Collaborative list – December 2021

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Dragan has caught up from his adventures in Colombia and the life list has reached 4103. Dragan has caught up from his adventures in Colombia and the life list has reached 4103.

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Little Big Year-Week 39: The southern coast in Costa Rica

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Eastern Meadowlark, Ring Kingfisher, Bare-throated Tiger-heron, Green Heron, Tropical Mockingbird, Northern Jacana, Black-bellied Whistling Ducks, Yellow-green Vireo, Thick-billed Euphonia, Roadside Hawk, Yellow-headed Caracara, Purple Gallinule, Tropical Kingbird, Gray-cowled Wood-rail, and Pale-vented Pigeons.