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Good Hummingbirds at El Tapir

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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.

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Birds of Central America: A Field Guide Review

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Birds of Central America: Belize, Guatemala, Honduras, El Salvador, Nicaragua, Costa Rican, and Panama , just published in October, is a field guide that was ten years in the making. The Marginal section is very brief, citing vagrants that have been reported or collected or photographed once or twice. Skutch (Cornell Univ.

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

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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.

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We Interrupt Regularly Scheduled.

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We interrupt regularly scheduled deconstructing, editorializing, commenting and ranting to bring you a letter from John Perkins : Dear Friends Speaking of Democracy, Honduras, and President Obama. Haiti and Honduras have always set the bottom line for minimum wages. Now, that optimism was turning sour.

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