10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 1, 2022

There was a Gartered Trogon right above me, and one cooperative Brown-throated Three-toed Sloth on a cecropia tree, raising its head to smile at us. I came with 957, and started to collect my birds like an Acorn Woodpecker collects its nuts. A group (maybe 4-5 ex.)

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10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 13, 2014

Hope for a vagrant comes in the form of an Orange-breasted Falcon sighting from west-central Panama. This Costa Rican enigma came to light after being collected by C. Although those two avian stars still occur in Costa Rica and western Panama, their numbers are low, and they don’t have the benefit of living anywhere else.

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10,000 Birds

MAY 3, 2012

Press in 2009), active participation in the Dragonfly Society of the Americas and leading dragonfly trips to Costa Rica and, hopefully this summer, Panama. The Natural History section points out that Red-tailed Pennants hold their wings flat or slightly lowered, while the skimmers tend to raise their wings.

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Animal Person

AUGUST 6, 2009

I was told by a Panamanian bank vice president, “Every multinational knows that if Honduras raises its hourly rate, the rest of Latin America and the Caribbean will have to follow. In throwing out Zelaya they are sending frightening messages to all the other presidents who are trying to raise the living standards of their people.”

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