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A Morning at Punta Morales, Costa Rica

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One of the quandaries of birding in Costa Rica is deciding where to go birding. Costa Rica’s small size, ease of access and massive avian diversity promises a wealth of birds in many places. With shorebirds on my mind, the other day, we opted for birding at Punta Morales.

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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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“The (Big) Year that Flew By: Twelve Months, Six Continents, and the Ultimate Birding Record”

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The (Big) Year that Flew By: Twelve Months, Six Continents, and the Ultimate Birding Record – which is the book’s full title, or Arjan Dwarshuis’s Big Year, as I prefer to call it shortly, is a highly anticipated and a long awaited travelogue of the author’s 2016 race against time across 40 countries in his attempt to break the world birding record.

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Tales of Remarkable Birds by Dominic Couzens

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Dominic Couzens is a prolific writer who has published tens of books on birds and birding in addition to his magazine work, but Tales of Remarkable Birds is the first of his titles that I have read. Tales of Remarkable Birds is available now from Bloomsbury Publishing. Reviews Bird Behavior book review cassowary'

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A Shorebird Search in Costa Rica, Late April

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During the winter months, thousands of small wading birds frequent the mud flats of the Gulf of Nicoya as well as estuaries on both coasts. It adds that jackpot flavor to birding at every mud flat at any time so you better be on your toes and ready to recognize the odd bird out of the flock.

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What is the National Bird of the United States?

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The Bald Eagle is the national bird of the United States of America. It was chosen as the national bird by dint of its inclusion in the National Seal of the United States, which happened by an act of the Continental Congress on 20 June 1782. He is a Bird of bad moral Character. He does not get his Living honestly.

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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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