10,000 Birds
DECEMBER 1, 2022
Now we were in Finca Tres Equis, a family cocoa farm (if I understood well, it translates as Triple X Farm) and a private reserve of over 300 hectares, of which more than 70 percent is a forest, representing part of a Jaguar corridor. Young birds, at least in captivity, become mature after 5 years and start breeding after 6 or 7 years.
10,000 Birds
SEPTEMBER 8, 2023
The first is that the illustrations by Dale Dyer are based, and largely seem to be the same, as the illustrations for his previous guide Birds of Central America: Belize, Guatemala, Honduras, El Salvador, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, and Panama (co-authored with Andrew Vallely, PUP, 2018). For context, the IOC version 13.1
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10,000 Birds
JULY 27, 2013
In the new world all meadowlarks and blackbirds, along with grackles, cowbirds, orioles, oropendulas, and some others, are members of the family Icteridae , the New World Blackbirds. Blackbirds are blackbirds. Meadowlarks are meadowlarks. You can also find Red-breasted Blackbirds in Costa Rica and Panama and south to Peru and Brazil.
10,000 Birds
DECEMBER 6, 2016
The end result is that the whole “biographic” area (NCA plus southern Mexico and northern Nicaragua) is home to 41 endemic bird species. Each family group starts with a description of what traits are common to the species within the family, its representation in Northern Central America, and other interesting, relevant facts.
10,000 Birds
MARCH 11, 2011
Brown Pelicans , and the northernmost Brown Booby breeding colony on this side of the Pacific. That larger clade is in turn sister to a clade containing the four remaining totipalmate bird families, which do still seem to be related, and which needed a new order name once pelicans were removed.
10,000 Birds
NOVEMBER 6, 2018
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.
10,000 Birds
JULY 21, 2021
The first words describing this species in Wikipedia are “poorly-documented” Before 2015, when I first saw it in Paso Ancho, it had only been reported twice on eBird outside of its Sierra Madre Occidental breeding range: once from Taxco, Mexico, and another report from Nicaragua. This fellow, however, was the real deal.
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