10,000 Birds

JULY 27, 2013

Blackbirds are blackbirds. In the new world all meadowlarks and blackbirds, along with grackles, cowbirds, orioles, oropendulas, and some others, are members of the family Icteridae , the New World Blackbirds. adult male Red-breasted Blackbird showing off its namesake. female Red-breasted Blackbird.

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Blackbirds Trinidad Costa Rica Nicaragua 166

10,000 Birds

APRIL 10, 2021

Based on population estimates and migration routes, yes, millions, and for some species, many millions! I’m sure quite a number just keep on going through the tropical night sky, find their way to woods in Nicaragua or further north but a good number do indeed stop in Costa Rica, go birding there now and you will see them.

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Costa Rica Nicaragua Ohio Honduras 263

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

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? © 2023 by Steve N. Not every bird.

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Costa Rica Belize El Salvador Birds 223

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 10, 2015

Although marching up and down and up and down can be a literal pain, the feathered rewards come in the form of super cool local species that rarely or never make it down to lower elevations. Here are ten of those special species: This yellow-eyed bird is a Volcano Junco. At least that’s the case for Costa Rica.

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Costa Rica Panama Nicaragua Honduras 150

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 30, 2015

A recent comment thread on Facebook about absurdly high counts of some species in the eBird database got me curious. What is the most of any one species that has ever been reported at one time? The most of any species ever reported is 76,000,000 Brown-headed Cowbirds. Who has seen the most Green Herons at one time? Gyrfalcons ?

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Birds Louisiana Nicaragua Blackbirds 174

10,000 Birds

MAY 30, 2015

However, there are a few stand out sites here and there that are significantly better for species like Jabiru, Lance-tailed Manakin, and Nicaraguan Grackle to name a few. Nicaraguan Grackle only lives in marshes around Lake Nicaragua. We had several Least Bitterns. This ain’t the wren.

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Costa Rica Chile Nicaragua San Jose 177