10,000 Birds

MAY 12, 2018

It was easy enough to participate, all anyone had to do was watch birds and record the number of species identified using eBird. Costa Rica is one of those places. One of my favorite birding shirts from Costa Rica, this was from a Christmas Count near Sam Ramon and yes, Speckled Tanagers were seen. Starting late.

Costa Rica 168

Costa Rica 2018 Colombia Collecting 168

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 10, 2015

Although marching up and down and up and down can be a literal pain, the feathered rewards come in the form of super cool local species that rarely or never make it down to lower elevations. At least that’s the case for Costa Rica. Here are ten of those special species: This yellow-eyed bird is a Volcano Junco.

Costa Rica 150

Costa Rica Panama Nicaragua Honduras 150

10,000 Birds

MAY 13, 2017

In South America, some countries have organized their birding ranks to try and catch the coveted top spot for bird species identified on Global Big Day. As for myself, if all goes well, I am counting some sweet hundreds of target species in three to four distinct habitats. We also have a good chance at the dino-like Green Ibis.

Costa Rica 124

Costa Rica Colombia Owls South America 124

10,000 Birds

JULY 19, 2018

It divides countries into categories, where the next category has 200 more species. In some cases the data are outdated, e.g. Costa Rica has 900 and not 800 species, but I made no corrections, remaining faithful to the original map data. 2 Panama (8.8 % of the global number – 976 species / 12 endemic species).

Equatorial Guinea 200

Equatorial Guinea Costa Rica Guyana Central African Republic 200

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 21, 2017

It’s going to take a while but if I can expend time and energy (aka birding kung-fu) in the right places, I can certainly make that happen for Costa Rica. Nevertheless, I still have over 232 species including the latest addition- a Striped Owl heard from my bedroom window as it called into a moonlit night.

Costa Rica 104

Costa Rica 2017 Woodpeckers Parrots 104

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 23, 2014

Finally, the Similan Islands are perhaps one of the most beautiful islands in the world and form a stunning backdrop to this species, one of the loveliest pigeons in the world. Apart from being an incredibly exciting bird, this is a species I had longed to see since my first trip to southern Africa way back in 1991.

2014 192

2014 Costa Rica South Africa Birds 192

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 13, 2014

When Costa Rica becomes a topic of conversation, we don’t usually hear the word “extinction” being thrown around. But how about when the Costa Rica conversation involves a birder? It’s easy to bedazzle the bins with this one when birding in Costa Rica. Must be a joke, right?

Costa Rica 222

Costa Rica Species Panama Birds 222

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 1, 2022

8 of them sent 153 lists, noting 645 species of bird across 7 countries (Mexico, UK, USA, Serbia, Australia, Costa Rica, Colombia). Dragan has caught up from his adventures in Colombia and the life list has reached 4103. The year list finishes at 1628.

Sparrows 238

Sparrows Woodpeckers Parrots Owls 238

10,000 Birds

APRIL 25, 2019

15%: Colombia, New Guinea (irrespective of the part/country). 21%: Costa Rica. The high position of Costa Rica comes as no surprise and yet, with more than one fifth of the total votes, I was a bit surprised how strong its 1st place is. Colombia was praised for its “amazing people, topography and biodiversity”.

Papua New Guinea 214

Papua New Guinea America Costa Rica Sri Lanka 214

10,000 Birds

JULY 6, 2021

In 2012, I reviewed The Jewel Hunter , an absorbing narrative in which author Chris Goodie travelled throughout Asia, Africa, and Australasia to observe and photograph every Pitta species in the world. Hummingbird species, on the other hand, number in the hundreds. Jonas D’Abronzo.

Costa Rica 264

Costa Rica Brazil Ecuador Bolivia 264

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 19, 2011

It is my best bird because it is just such an incredible species, and looking at it made me realize that I had temporarily stopped to fully appreciate birds during the stressful last few years. This year I watched them from the day they arrived , until two chicks successfully hatched, the northernmost breeding record for the species.

2011 186

2011 Birds South Korea North Dakota 186

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 1, 2019

Looking at a photo of a dozen birders on a Colombia tour, it stroke me that they were either using binoculars or cameras. Born in a different era, when bird photography was difficult, I gave many advice how to write the basic info, but the strangest thing to novices today turned out to be the advice on sketching the unknown species.

Birds 140

Birds Costa Rica Greece Battery 140

10,000 Birds

APRIL 28, 2018

In addition to Spanish, several other languages continue to be spoken, the pines and cypress trees of the Guatemalan highlands only occur as introduced species once you travel south of Nicaragua, and dozens of bird species that occur in Costa Rica and Panama don’t even make it to Nicaragua. How true this was!

Costa Rica 117

Costa Rica Guatemala Birds Nicaragua 117

10,000 Birds

MAY 25, 2019

This happens in Peru, Colombia, Panama, Costa Rica and other major birdy places because GBD isn’t just viewed as a day to watch birds. Colombia usually gets the number one spot for GBD (most bird species for any country, no surprise there) but any country with a high total can and does use the results to their advantage.

Costa Rica 198

Costa Rica Species 2019 Owls 198

10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 9, 2022

Every year, the top birders in Mexico surpass the species totals of their counterparts in the United States, and double the totals of Canada’s best. More telling still, they are finding higher numbers of species in a country that is only one-fifth the size of its northern neighbors. border in twelve hours, or fly there in three.

Mexico 224

Mexico Birds Costa Rica Alabama 224

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 5, 2011

They are the only birds able to fly backwards and the 340-odd species come in many different forms. Its partner is the well-known Ruby-throated Hummingbird , one of the only species of hummingbird that migrates every year. Found in the foothills of northern Ecuador and Colombia, these stunning hummingbirds hold down the no.

Colombia 279

Colombia Ecuador Bolivia Peru 279