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Birds of Belize & Birds of Costa Rica: A Field Guide Review Doubleheader

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Birds of Belize by Steve N. The first is that the illustrations by Dale Dyer are based, and largely seem to be the same, as the illustrations for his previous guide Birds of Central America: Belize, Guatemala, Honduras, El Salvador, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, and Panama (co-authored with Andrew Vallely, PUP, 2018). Why are these issues?

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Birding and Fly-fishing in Belize

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Oh Belize. A beautiful country on Central America’s coast, Belize boasts spectacular diving and snorkeling, immense cave systems, beautiful rivers, dense jungles, and of course, hundreds and hundreds of birds. My husband and I arrived in Belize just after a late afternoon thunderstorm.

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Visit Guatemala with Birding Expeditions

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Our company is based in Guatemala but also offers tours in Belize, Honduras, El Salvador, and Mexico. Guatemala has the most reliable places to observe the mythical Horned Guan. We work hard to provide the richest and most rewarding experience of the Neotropics.

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Birding Belizean Jungle

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Belize gave me my first opportunity to see the jungle for myself, as well as its avian treasures! I had one goal for our birding morning: to spot a Keel-billed Toucan , the national bird of Belize. In Belize, Scarlet Macaws are becoming more and more rare. Scarlet Macaws in flight.

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Peterson Field Guide to Birds of Northern Central America: A Book Review

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So, if you are going to write a field guide on the birds of the countries south and east of Mexico–Belize, El Salvador, Guatemala, and Honduras—it makes the utmost sense that you embrace the whole geographic area. This is an important fact to keep in mind if you are birding Belize and northern Guatemala, where their ranges overlap.

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Fruit For Birds

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This is a photo that my friend Larry Sirvio took in Belize. They are species that breed in the US and then spend the winter in Central and South America, eating what’s avialable–especially fruit. Check that out, it’s a Wood Thrush coming to a papaya feeder.

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Cry “Havoc!” or a Birding Movie before the Birding Movie

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If you are not familiar with the story, it’s about an Anglo-Irish mercenary, Jamie Shannon (played by Christopher Walken), hired to overthrow the regime in a fictional Western African country (it was actually filmed in Belize, Central America) and prior to the real thing, he was doing a reconnaissance trip posing as a “rare birds photographer”.

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