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

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Since I wanted to buy some genuine tastes of Costa Rica, we continued to C.A.T.I.E. campus gardens – the Tropical Agricultural Research and Higher Education Centre, located 3 km east of the town of Turrialba. Young birds, at least in captivity, become mature after 5 years and start breeding after 6 or 7 years.

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Your Best Birds of the Year for 2012

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Tommy Thompson Park Bird Research Station in Toronto had an extremely rare and beautiful Townsend’s Warbler x Black-throated Gray Warbler which was banded in April. 2012 was one of my best years for birding in Costa Rica. I even managed to shoot a video with hands trembling of excitement, probably a first of the species.

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Most Wanted Birds in Brazil

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Not to mention, its brilliantly bulbous crimson throat, bloated during breeding season must be a sight! My first tropical birding trip was to Costa Rica when I was 8 and the Jabiru was at the top of my list even then, but sadly none were encountered. The Magnificent Frigatebird is the bird I would want to see.

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Bradt travel guide to Sri Lanka by Philip Briggs – review

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It is slightly larger than Costa Rica, and in the most strategic places it has a well-developed infrastructure. Since the 1990s, Briggs has researched and authored several pioneering Bradt Guides to destinations that were then – and in some cases still are – otherwise practically uncharted by the travel publishing industry.

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