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A Comparison of Birding in Costa Rica and Eilat, Israel

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I have been back from Eilat, Israel for more than a week but still find myself dreaming about birding in the desert. Then I wake up, eventually realize that I am back in Costa Rica, and find myself thinking about birding here and birding there. In tropical Costa Rica, we have our fair share of exotic, cool-looking creatures.

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Big Day Birding in Costa Rica- Strategies and Constraints

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Looking for terns, White-eyed Gulls , and other seabirds from North Beach, Eilat, Israel during Champions of the Flyway. 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.