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Analogue vs. digital birding

10,000 Birds

(Talking of eBird, why don’t they show users the list of the bird families they observed? My life list is not even a thousand species long, yet, I birded four continents and the list of bird families should be quite interesting.). Inset: birding Costa Rica. Where do you stand in the analogue vs. digital discussion?

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Veraguan Mango – Panama's ex-endemic

10,000 Birds

Veraguan Mango by Carlos Bethancourt Although the Neotropical region supports fewer bird families than Africa, there are considerably more bird species here than anywhere else on earth. This means that there are some astoundingly large families of birds in Central and South America. have found their way to Costa Rica.

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