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

10,000 Birds

A Wood Stork lands in a tree, while one Neotropical River Otter swims across and climbs a floating log. Young birds, at least in captivity, become mature after 5 years and start breeding after 6 or 7 years. This equates to a decline of 99% over three generations for Nicaragua and Costa Rica (IUCN 2019).