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

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Black-bellied Whistling-Ducks , Muscovy Ducks and Blue-winged Teals were around us, together with Green , Great and Little Blue Herons , Cattle and Great White Egrets , Black-crowned and Yellow-crowned Night-Herons , plus one locally rare Pinnated Bittern in the floating vegetation, as well as several dozen Neotropical Cormorants.

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What Flies Over Costa Rica in the Night?

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If the wind carries them on, maybe they will go to Panama, or even make it to Colombia. If the last stop from the Yucatan happens to be Costa Rica, warblers, cuckoos, and thrushes come down to rest and with so much habitat available in such a small area, they can have their pick of cloud forest, rainforest and riparian zones.

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Expectations and Suggestions for Caribbean Lowland Birding in Costa Rica

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They used to be but a burgeoning population in need of more living room and land for cattle and crops destroyed a fair portion of those rainforests during the 20th century. But, if you want to go further afield, fear not, there is some wonderful lowland forest birding up near Nicaragua and down south by Panama as well.

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Pat’s 2020 Bird List, Mostly from Costa Rica

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Brown Booby – Sula leucogaster; Playa Panama, 11-Jan. Cattle Egret – Bubulcus ibis; Tambor, 3-Jan. Least Storm-Petrel – Hydrobates microsoma; Paquera, 3-Jan. Wood Stork – Mycteria americana; Tambor, 3-Jan. Magnificent Frigatebird – Fregata magnificens; Paquera, 3-Jan. Anhinga – Anhinga anhinga; Paquera, 3-Jan.

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I and the Bird: What is a Vulture?

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As impressive as these birds are, many species, particularly in southern Asia , have seen precipitous population declines having to do somewhat with the old habitat issues that plague animals around the world , but more to do with the widespread use of anti-inflammatory drugs on cattle, who then die and are eaten by vultures who are poisoned.

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Collaborative List – August 2021

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The year list remains sluggish at 1489 , but the life list received a boost from the eBird taxonomy reshuffle and now includes 4076 species. The year list remains sluggish at 1489 , but the life list received a boost from the eBird taxonomy reshuffle and now includes 4076 species.

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Collaborative list – March 2021

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Checklists came in from 7 countries (USA, UK, Serbia, China, Mexico, Costa Rica and Australia) and brought the year list for 2021 so far to 1143. Checklists came in from 7 countries (USA, UK, Serbia, China, Mexico, Costa Rica and Australia) and brought the year list for 2021 so far to 1143.

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