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Rancho Naturalista Lodge, Costa Rica, or in the Land of Coffee and Chocolate

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Young birds, at least in captivity, become mature after 5 years and start breeding after 6 or 7 years. The subpopulation in northern Costa Rica and southern Nicaragua numbered 834 individuals in 2009, but was estimated at less than 200 individuals, equating to c. 130 mature individuals, in 2019 (Monge et al.

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The Blackbird that is a Meadowlark – Red-breasted Blackbird in Trinidad

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Trinidad is the northern limit of the range of the Red-breasted Blackbird , though it is unclear if the occasional birds that show up in Tobago are wanderers from Trinidad or northern South America or are breeding there. You can also find Red-breasted Blackbirds in Costa Rica and Panama and south to Peru and Brazil.

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Birds of Central America: A Field Guide Review

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Birds of Central America: Belize, Guatemala, Honduras, El Salvador, Nicaragua, Costa Rican, and Panama , just published in October, is a field guide that was ten years in the making. Of the native breeding species, 112 are endemic or “very nearly endemic.” (Can It’s unique in two major ways. Skutch (Cornell Univ. by Robert S.

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