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7 Resolutions for Birding Costa Rica in 2021

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Time is relative but the first day of the first month of a brand new year also acts as a good moment for making birding resolutions. I don’t know if I can make these happen but I’m making some 2021 Costa Rica birding resolutions anyways! The more birds the better and there’s a lot to see in Costa Rica!

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How to Bird on Crutches

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For some reason it didn’t occur to me how humid Costa Rica might be and I needed a day or two to acclimatise. On that day I wore a shirt made of some smart material, which I expected to dry out fast, not the least because it had a logo of a well-known binoculars brand on it. And it worked – I still dream of Costa Rica.

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Collaborative list – August 2019

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In publishing the most current thinking, eBird have become the month’s biggest contributor to the life list, expanding it by 7 brand new species and pushing it to 3774. Ferruginous Pygmy-Owl – Glaucidium brasilianum. I just live for this stuff! Not to be out-done, the beats have been out doing their thing as well.

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