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New Place in Costa Rica, New Yard List

10,000 Birds

Back in the old place, there were more birds in the nearby coffee farm but it wasn’t easy to bird because I couldn’t see it from my door and there were stray dogs. In typical blackbird fashion, this common garden bird gave occasional, loud, ringing calls. Right at home. These were. These were. Great Kiskadee.

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“Understanding Animal Behaviour” by Rory Putman

10,000 Birds

E.g. I remember trying to enter my local scrubland once, just across the car park behind the last apartment building and there, awaiting me, was a territorial pack of stray dogs barking at an intruder – me. Brewer’s blackbird, Euphagus cyanocephalus. Cactus finch, Geospiza species. How did I know that?

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