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Alto del Carmen Pisco Reservado

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Luckily, I recently picked up a bottle of a pisco from Chile, Alto del Carmen Pisco Reservado, that I’ve been meaning to review – this should do nicely for our first-of-year bottle of liquor. Alto del Carmen Pisco Reservado is named for a village in northern Chile in the Huasco River valley of the Atacama Region. Dip averted.

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Swarovski NL Pure – the Sexiest Binoculars Ever

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Next time I will try my local patch of Beljarica backwaters in Belgrade and check how much different the NL experience is. Once at home, I looked at Wildfowl by Steve Madge and Hilary Burn, to quickly discover that I was watching the Chiloe Wigeon , indigenous to Chile and Argentina. A Little Stint awaited me there this morning.

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Birding Chaco at JV Gonzles – Trip Report

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The first views of a Brown Cachalote made up for all of the dust sucking experience. My first heat thumping experience came when I saw the Crested Hornero. Got my second thumping experience with the first views of the Lark-like Bushrunner ! My third crested bird-thumping experience was the Red-crested Cardinal.

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Where America dreams of/goes birding?

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Here are the results: 3 per cent of respondents (in no particular order): Trinidad and Tobago, Chile, Tanzania, Madagascar. They would like to experience it, but have no sufficient knowledge of its birding possibilities to choose one, or a few, instead of a continent as a whole. 8%: Brazil, Panama. 10%: Australia, Papua New Guinea.

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Quality Birds at Cano Negro, Costa Rica

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The straw-colored Pinnated Bittern is a tough one to find in Costa Rica unless you do some dawn or late afternoon birding at marshes in Cano Negro or the Medio Queso site near Los Chiles. We got two of them at Medio Queso when they did a bit of bittern booming and stalking through the grass around five p.m.

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Parrots: Brazil’s Colorful Avian Clowns

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Second, they occupy an astonishing variety of habitats from temperate Araucaria forests in Chile to alpine scree in New Zealand to seasonally flooded rainforests in Brazil to rocky sea cliffs in Australia. In my experience, parrots form a visibly and numerically important component of the Brazilian bird fauna.

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Birds of Belize & Birds of Costa Rica: A Field Guide Review Doubleheader

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Steve Howell has spent decades of experience in the field studying the birds of Belize, Costa Rica, and especially Mexico. Sullivan, 2016), B irds of Chile: a Photo Guide (with Fabrice Schmitt, 2018), and Peterson Guide To Bird Identification in 12 Steps (with Brian Sullivan, 2018). Press, 1995 ^Howell, Steve N.G., 4 (July 2013), pp.