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Big Day Birding in Costa Rica- Strategies and Constraints

10,000 Birds

We have to figure out when the highest numbers of migrants coincide with resident breeders to increase the probabilities of breaking the previous record, or to at least hit your Big Day birding goal. They got all three potoo species in Costa Rica. It can’t be any time in spring, though.

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Our Best Birds of 2020

10,000 Birds

Unfortunately, this morph is the dominant one at Fuzhou NFP”) that somehow survived the review process, possibly because the reviewer has had similar experiences. However, it wasn’t until the infamous year of 2020 that I finally laid eyes on it in the marshes of Las Pangas in southern Costa Rica. Preposterous!

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