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Good Hummingbirds at El Tapir

10,000 Birds

Since the male Snowcap only occurs in foothill rainforests from Honduras to western Panama, is pretty uncommon (or at least often hard to see), and has deep wine reddish plumage with a glowing white crown, it can’t help but be a perpetual good bird. Say that you were “gripped” and they might be tempted to call the cops.

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The Cotinga and Two Other Favorite Birds from Global Big Day, Costa Rica

10,000 Birds

Although more than twenty thousand people around the globe who share the hobby or passion or obsession for watching the feathered ones also shared a collective day of birding on May 5th, we just had to do it again for fall migration. It was October 6, Global Big Day part dos and birders in Costa Rica were stoked. And how not?