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Pat’s 2020 Bird List, Mostly from Costa Rica

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And this doesn’t mean you are obsessed or a little bit too much into birds because keeping track of a year list actually comes with some side benefits. Yeah, many of us living the birding life do so anyways because we can’t help it. Go birding! Black-bellied Plover – Pluvialis squatarola; Punta Morales, 10-Jan.

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Water, Water, Everywhere

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You know how you plan your regular Monday birding outing in spite of a category 2 hurricane making landfall on the coast, 135 miles away, because the rain bands are supposed to finish impacting your area at around 7:00 a.m.? And then the hurricane stalls, and the rain continues until noon, but you go birding anyway? Which I did.

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Signs of Spring Migration in Costa Rica

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That unwanted yet predictable final bit of killing cold weather was and is why most of the colorful insectivores, the true birds of summer, remained far to the south until May. Baltimore Oriole- one of the more common wintering birds in Costa Rica. Typically, in Costa Rica, this swamp beauty is a bird of wetlands and mangroves.

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Who cares for your ducks in the winter?

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That is because Lago de Cuitzeo receives a huge number of migratory waterfowl and shorebirds, with smaller numbers of sparrows, buntings, and other migratory birds in the areas around the lake’s shore. Not only are the species numbers good, but the spectacle of so, so many individual birds can be thrilling.

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“Earth’s Wild Music”: a book review

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And what an attractive cover it has, filled with blackbirds against a blue and purple sky. The post “Earth’s Wild Music”: a book review appeared first on 10,000 Birds. A fine idea for a nature book is promised by the title and subtitle: Earth’s Wild Music: Celebrating and Defending the Songs of the Natural World.

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Collaborative list – January 2020

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10,000 Birds’s collaborative list has not been entered to feature here, but if we did we choose to press our advantage of having beats strategically placed around the world, we would currently be in second place. The year has started well with 10 new birds from India, China, Hawaii, Mexico and Costa Rica. 21 Jan 2020.

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Collaborative List – November 2019

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Brewer’s Blackbird – Euphagus cyanocephalus. Punta Morales–Cocorocas salinas. Punta Morales–Cocorocas salinas. Punta Morales–Cocorocas salinas. Punta Morales–Cocorocas salinas. Punta Morales–Cocorocas salinas. Punta Morales–Cocorocas salinas. Puntarenas.

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