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Pseudonymns for Costa Rican Birds

10,000 Birds

Here are a few of my recommendations for some such esteemed members of the Costa Rican avifauna: Forest Football Chicken or FFC (Great Tinamou) – Since tinamou sounds like the perfect representation of an oddly-shaped bird with a small head that gives beautiful tremulous vocalizations, I am sorely tempted to leave this one off the list.

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Wildlife Rehabilitator War Wounds

10,000 Birds

A Bald Eagle took a chunk out of my jaw,” said Vonda Lee Morton. “I And the eagle was released a few months later!”. “ I’ve been working with eagles and raptors for over 40 years,” says Marge Gibson. It was swollen and sore for two weeks.”. Yeah right! She had bumble foot, and she was fast and angry.