10,000 Birds
FEBRUARY 13, 2021
12 species of cuckoos are on the Costa Rica bird list. Tortuguero- one of many excellent birding areas in Costa Rica. I can’t say the same for the other especially tough cuckoo in Costa Rica, the one and only Rufous-vented Ground-Cuckoo (or RVG as I like to call it). boat ride to Cocos Island.
10,000 Birds
JULY 24, 2021
Groups them by family too and by their shape” His extra long arm extended and passed me that precious book. Fast forwarding to Costa Rica, to be honest, you won’t find any grouse around here. The easiest of the wood-quails in Costa Rica is the Spotted Wood-Quail. “Check it out!”
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10,000 Birds
SEPTEMBER 16, 2017
Like if a chickadee calls while a family member is making his or her wedding vows, the covert birder won’t even blink. In Costa Rica, instead of frogmouths, we have equally weird and wonderful potoos. I never stop birding no matter where I am, Costa Rica included. This one is photo friendly at several sites.
10,000 Birds
APRIL 28, 2018
In addition to Spanish, several other languages continue to be spoken, the pines and cypress trees of the Guatemalan highlands only occur as introduced species once you travel south of Nicaragua, and dozens of bird species that occur in Costa Rica and Panama don’t even make it to Nicaragua. How true this was!
10,000 Birds
NOVEMBER 24, 2018
endure for ground-cuckoos, staring cat-like into the dim depths of rainforest, I am grateful to help cater to their birding needs. It’s all good in the birding hood no matter where one raises the bins but in Costa Rica, it’s easy to get spoiled by diversity. After a bird rich morning at Cope’s.
10,000 Birds
JULY 6, 2021
If you had your choice of one bird family to pursue, to seek out and observe and photograph and kvell over, which one would you choose? A passion for one bird family is also very useful. It provides goals and a definite direction for your birding travels and thoughts; sometimes it even becomes the basis of a book!
10,000 Birds
MARCH 1, 2011
Veraguan Mango by Carlos Bethancourt Although the Neotropical region supports fewer bird families than Africa, there are considerably more bird species here than anywhere else on earth. This means that there are some astoundingly large families of birds in Central and South America. have found their way to Costa Rica.
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