10,000 Birds

APRIL 28, 2018

After a brief look at a map, my rough guesstimate is that the territory from Guatemala and Belize south to the Darien gap is roughly equal to New England, or Florida and the eastern parts of Georgia and the Carolinas north to the Virginia line. Finally, I made it to the main gap in my birding life north of Colombia! How true this was!

Costa Rica 115

Costa Rica Guatemala Birds Nicaragua 115

10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 7, 2021

Actively birding in Costa Rica as well as Nicaragua and Panama as well as the USA, Mexico, Guatemala, Colombia, Peru and Ecuador. Organization committee for the Arenal Annual Bird Count. Volunteer reviewer for eBird in Costa Rica.

Costa Rica 248

Costa Rica Experience Experiments Nicaragua 248

10,000 Birds

JULY 19, 2018

401-600 sp: Honduras, Guatemala, Guyana, Suriname and French Guyana, Chile, Paraguay, Uruguay; the Sahel countries (Africa), Namibia and Botswana; Central Asian countries and Cambodia. 1601-1800 sp : Colombia, Brazil, Peru (Looking for smaller areas of these huge countries? . – 7 Guatemala (764 sp. / 801-1000 sp. –

Equatorial Guinea 195

Equatorial Guinea Costa Rica Guyana Central African Republic 195

10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 9, 2022

You could probably achieve an even higher diversity of species in some other areas of the world, such as Costa Rica, Colombia, Brazil, or Borneo. Cuernavaca, and the lovely town of San Cristobal de las Casas near Mexico’s southern border with Guatemala. border in twelve hours, or fly there in three.

Mexico 216

Mexico Birds Costa Rica Alabama 216

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 10, 2015

The montane forests of Costa Rica and western Panama are home to at least 50 species of birds that live nowhere else except for one or two that also occur in northwestern Colombia. Quetzal also lives in cloud forests in southern Mexico, Guatemala, Honduras, and Nicaragua. At least that’s the case for Costa Rica.

Costa Rica 150

Costa Rica Panama Nicaragua Honduras 150

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. Dragan has caught up from his adventures in Colombia and the life list has reached 4103.

Sparrows 231

Sparrows Woodpeckers Parrots Owls 231

10,000 Birds

APRIL 9, 2013

The remarkable Resplendent Quetzal photographed in Guatemala by Adam Riley. A Long-tailed Sylph, one of the America’s many long tailed hummingbird species, photographed in Colombia by Adam Riley. A Great Argus in full call, this species’ tail consists of the longest feather in the bird world.

Papua New Guinea 238

Papua New Guinea South Africa Africa Zimbabwe 238