Breeding Costa Rica Family Mexico 
10,000 Birds
SEPTEMBER 8, 2023
Howell and Dale Dyer and Birds of Costa Rica by Dale Dyer and Steve N. It’s not clear how many of the plates have been touched up, redrawn or are new, and I hope we’ll learn more about the process, perhaps when the third book in the series by Howell and Dyer, a new guide to the birds of Mexico, is published.*
10,000 Birds
SEPTEMBER 25, 2015
Think Arizona meets Costa Rica with a Mexican twist. In the mean time, a family group of Black-throated Magpie-Jays were frolicking in the breeze high over the dry valley, showing off their exorbitantly long tail streamers. This poorly documented swallow is a breeding endemic to these high mountains.
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10,000 Birds
MARCH 8, 2017
A member of the small Ptiliogonatidae family of silky-flycatchers, of which there are only three other species besides our local Phainopepla , Phainopepl nitens. The Black-and-white Phainoptila , Phainoptila melanoxantha from Costa Rica and Panama. It would appear that this is the only bird with this capability.
10,000 Birds
DECEMBER 6, 2016
So, if you are going to write a field guide on the birds of the countries south and east of Mexico–Belize, El Salvador, Guatemala, and Honduras—it makes the utmost sense that you embrace the whole geographic area. It has been a long time between field guides for most of these countries.
10,000 Birds
NOVEMBER 6, 2018
It actually makes a lot of sense, the geographic features of the isthmus between North America (including Mexico, because Mexico is part of North America) and South America cut across political lines, as do birds. Of the native breeding species, 112 are endemic or “very nearly endemic.” (Can One field guide, seven countries.
10,000 Birds
NOVEMBER 14, 2014
One of these islands may have been the present day Northern Central American Highlands which includes Honduras, Guatemala, El Salvador, and parts of extreme southern Mexico (Chiapas). We also observed the beautifully patterned Prevost’s Ground-Sparrow , a sparrow very different from the ones that go by the same name in Costa Rica.
10,000 Birds
SEPTEMBER 20, 2012
Its native range stretches from the southern Pacific coast of Mexico south to northwestern Costa Rica, where it is an inhabitant of arid to semihumid woodland and open areas with scattered trees. The young followed the parents around in small family groups well after they had fledged.
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