10,000 Birds
JULY 22, 2017
In Costa Rica, even the super shy Slaty-backed Forest-Falcon is seen more often than the island pigeon with the snow-white cap. The Bat Falcon that joined us for breakfast. . Despite part of it being chomped by cattle, we still managed a juvenile Rufescent Tiger-Heron , an excellent find for Costa Rica!
10,000 Birds
MARCH 4, 2017
In keeping with high diversity in other aspects of the avian kingdom, including falcons and excluding owls, this small country has a raptor list that tops fifty species. To throw another monkey wrench into the raptor situation, clime change isn’t doing them any favors. I took note of this Swallow-tailed Kite at San Vito.
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10,000 Birds
MAY 10, 2012
Little Blue and Tricolored Herons , Snowy , Great , and Cattle Egrets , a Laughing Falcon , Black Vultures, Blue-winged Teal , a Wood Stork , a nesting tree of Montezuma Oropendulas , and Ruddy Ground-Doves were just some of the species we saw on our short train ride into the refuge. Howler monkeys! My first-ever wild monkeys!
10,000 Birds
APRIL 13, 2015
Heading south on a good surfaced road, we made slow progress through the herds of cattle, donkeys and goats that thronged the highway, until we finally reached the land of the Konso. Quality time was spent with a friendly Hamar family at their homestead of grass huts surrounding their cattle corral. Mursi woman.
10,000 Birds
MAY 8, 2013
But if we want to continue to throw a monkey-wrench into this all too cut and dried scenario, there’s also the fact that the Old World vultures had a foothold in North America up until the Neogene about 2.5 The need to travel long distances to seek out dead things necessitates some impressive aerial skills. millions years ago.
10,000 Birds
DECEMBER 30, 2021
One of this species’ many peculiarities is that it has a digestive system unique amongst birds: Hoatzins use bacterial fermentation in the front part of the gut to break down the vegetable material they consume, much as cattle and other ruminants do. and near-endemic Golden-backed Uakari monkeys ( Cacajao melanocephalus ).
10,000 Birds
SEPTEMBER 2, 2017
Monkey Mia. Monkey Mia. Cattle Egret – Bubulcus ibis. Monkey Mia. Barred Forest-Falcon – Micrastur ruficollis. Collared Forest-Falcon – Micrastur semitorquatus. Laughing Falcon – Herpetotheres cachinnans. Little Tinamou – Crypturellus soui. casa botania. 20 Jan 2017.
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